Our inaugural Youth Ideas panel, part of the first Citywide Youth Summit, explores the legacy of U.S. youth activism and, above all, its importance in social movements today. This discussion, featuring young agents for change who are fighting for various causes, is motivated by the conviction that teenagers are not only able to effect change…
The Charlottesville white nationalist rally, along with the associated deaths and injuries linked to it, follow a nationwide increase in hate crimes in the past year. Within 10 days of Donald Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 900 bias-related incidents against minorities. The center’s president Richard Cohen joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss these…
Roland Martin said on NewsOne Now: President Donald Trump was missing in action. He embarrassed himself, his administration and the nation with one of the most soulless, gutless, shameful and despicable statements ever utter by an American president after a tragedy. _ Listen, download and subscribe to the ALL NEW Roland Martin Unfiltered Audio Podcast…
Millions of Boomers are moving into old age with empty pockets and declining choices to earn a living. Right behind them is a younger generation facing the same challenges. Is a good life on a moderate income even possible? Yes! Find out how. Elizabeth White is a Harvard MBA and former C-suite executive who never…
http://www.bravenewvoices.org Witness the magic of Brave New Voices. Listen to Rose, Isabella, Lila & Rose expose how casual misogyny and cat calling create the war zone women face every day. 600 young poets from around the world converged in the San Francisco Bay Area for the 20th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam…
There is always something magical in the voices of spoken word artists. They speak from so many places inside of themselves: heart, mind, and soul. Brave New Voices displays those voices beautifully. Witness the magic of Brave New Voices. Listen to Shaddai, Jalesha, and Elhondra introduce three superheroes “with a splash of chemical X activism.”…
Mario Cordero has a great view of the Long Beach Airport from his corner office at the Port of Long Beach headquarters on Spring Street. He sits there as the Port’s latest Executive Director having taken the helm of the job May 15, 2017. But, it’s not his first time at the Port’s headquarters. While…
“Fire and fury.” “Lock and Loaded.” I’ve become immune to the crazy words that spew from DJT to the point that I don’t know how to assess his current bluster about war. He vomits threats like he’s in a school playground threatening the other children around him that he’ll kick anyone’s ass because he can….
Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro CHA, reminds me of another community organizer I had the honor to work with during 1968-69. Evelina Lopez Antonetty was a civil rights activist who fought battles with the Education establishment on behalf of parents and children of the Bronx. Like Jessica Quintana, she was dogged in her determination…
Protest art is a broad term that refers to creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements. There are also contemporary and historical works and currents of thought that can be characterized in this way. Social movements produce such works as the signs, banners, posters, and other printed materials used to…