Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people.
With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
What happens when medical technology, moral values, the legal system, religion, psychopathology, human life, and human rights all collide at the same crossing?
This is the first-and the only authorized-biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution.
The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities.
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nations racial front.
Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.
Radicals have important messages to deliver but are often so caught up in the passion of their causes that they lose sight of effective communication -- which is their biggest tool.
MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ'An underground hit' Best Politics Books, Financial Times'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to DictatorshipDescriptionCitizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.
In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation.
This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is "e;an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system"e; (Ibram X.
Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations.
Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations.
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the YearNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by ELLE,Buzzfeed,Esquire,Bitch Media, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Parade andBookRiotOne of the smartest young writers of her generation.
Since gaining their independence from Belgium forty years ago, the people of the Congo have endured a never-ending stream of violent political upheavals, natural disasters and failed social and economic experiments.
Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War-and the media's manipulative coverage-by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district-a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan.
During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice.
