Parkside Houses’ annual street fair is a time for revelry and relaxation. But this year, it was also an opportunity for activists to educate the community on keeping kids out of jail.
RNC update: Why did Russell Simmons’ Hip-Hop Summit Action Network back out of the Still We Rise march?
He may be marketing it as a weapon in the “war on poverty,” but Russell Simmons’ new banking card will actually make consumers poorer.
Some of the nation’s youngest organizers lost a leader on October 1 when Lisa Yvette Sullivan passed away.
Deciding to become a community organizer used to mean post-college purgatory. Now it’s a lifelong profession. City Limits examines 15 organizing schools that prep tomorrow’s rabble-rousers.
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