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The Black church has always joined hands with other faith traditions and stood on the front lines as they did in Selma, Alabama, fifty years ago. Now it’s time to take on climate change.
Tired of waiting for outside help, grassroots organizations are generating resources from within the African American community.
Gray family attorney Billy Murphy and Rev. Heber Brown III, pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church and member of Baltimore United for Change speak with Amy Goodman.
Support Baltimore Grassroots #BmoreUnited
Watford began organizing four years ago as part of Free Your Voice, a human rights committee of United Workers.
We, the undersigned, are still in The Struggle, remembering Freddie Gray and all who have come before – and preparing those who will emerge.
Will we follow the same detrimental patterns of other major cities that have given in to gentrification? Or will we develop a new model that leads the country in redeveloping communities of affordability, diversity and integrity to pre-existing cultures?
Organizing in Baltimore is relational. In Baltimore, grassroots leaders don’t earn their stripes on twitter or on the protest line; Here you earn your stripes by serving and being in the community when there are no cameras.
Who gets to decide when violence is acceptable, moral, and even Christian? Who gets to decide that a brick in Baltimore is more violent than—just this week—a police officer’s gun in Louisiana, or, for that matter, a drone in Pakistan?
