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Empowering Voices talks with Jean-Claude Brizard, CEO of Chicago Public Schools
Empowering Voices speaks with Cathy Cohen, Ph.D., author, feminist, scholar, activist about Voter ID laws...
"The calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak, ...We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak." - MLK
One of my biggest disappointments in the political sense, however, is that once again the Black Community is being led to support the legislative priorities established by other people without making demands of our own which will benefit a greater majority of our own people.
“It’s time out for moaning, groaning and complaining. SOBWC III is about examining real models and solutions to real problems, learning from each other, embracing each other, and developing strategies to engage the struggle to empower our communities.
Michelle Alexander, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden and Marc Lamont Hill discuss the issue of prison reform verses prison abolition at Riverside Church on September 14, 2012.
Angela Davis and Michelle Alexander take part in a panel discussion on the issue of mass incarceration at Riverside Church in New York City on September 14, 2012. They answer the questions of, what is the problem of mass incarceration and what does it say about the United States society?
In a day when schools, recreation centers, and pools are dancing on the edge of closure because of alleged state and municipal funding restrictions, it’s time for Governor Martin O’Malley to work with us to move Maryland forward not back!
Warren Ballentine to M.C. Opening Session of SOBWC III
The election of the first black US president offered hope to millions of African Americans across the country. But have four years of an Obama presidency seen positive change for black communities in the US' inner cities? Fault Lines' Sebastian Walker spends time with those on the front lines of the failed drug war to understand some fundamental dynamics of race, poverty, incarceration and economic truths in the US in an election year.
