Reparations Qualifications and Confusion

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN07302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        As a Nikole Hannah-Jones fan, I followed her arguments carefully and approvingly in a recent piece in the New York Times as she demolished one quick fix after another that would achieve increased racial equity as she built up to her conclusion that reparations …

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Dismantling the False Paths to Equity

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN07292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      I’ll never forget the surprise on a colleague’s face who was working to build a nonprofit community development organization in the Mississippi delta several years ago when we first met.  A lot of her work had been focused on schools and enhancing their curriculum …

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Talking Organizing in Atlanta

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans  Having not flown in months, I was curious what was up in the airways.  My 6:15 AM on a Saturday to Atlanta was the first flight out of New Orleans.  That was already strange.  It used to be one of many.  Where was the 5:28 …

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