Thousands of students around the country staged a national school walkout today (March 14) to protest gun violence, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In an effort to pressure Congress to...Read More

In late 2007, I was a youth organizer at the SouthWest Organizing Project in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sitting in the third row of a cold school board room anxiously awaiting my turn to speak. A few years earlier, we blocked efforts to...Read More

The recent Black Girls Day at the Capitol highlights minority women’s economic issues in Florida. Several organizations want improvements on education and better access to health care. The Sisters Organizing for Understanding and Leadership Group and other minority groups want...Read More

We were deeply saddened to hear the news at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Our thoughts are with all of the families and victims of this terrible tragedy. Once again, there will be discourse on gun rights and history has...Read More

Highlander Research and Education Center also known as the Folks School, was founded in 1932 by Myles Horton. Throughout the years, Highlander has become a meeting place that brings people of color and white allies together to challenge white supremacy....Read More