(THE CONVERSATION) Americans don’t agree on much these days, but many feel that the U.S. is on the wrong track and the future is bleak. In a time of unprecedented division, rising inequality and ...

Long Beach Forward will soon host a series of workshops aimed at helping people strengthen their organizing skills and bolster community building. The series, called “LB Blooming: Organizing Workshops ...

Power, and the lack thereof, is the fundamental cause of inequity, in communities around the world because it maintains and holds those inequities in place. For the many foundations focused on ...

Over the past decade, philanthropic leaders and others working for progressive social change have increasingly focused on culture. This growing interest in culture comes from a dual understanding that ...

History teaches that fear, isolation, and hopelessness play a big part in our divisions. Organizing is where we do two things essential to democracy: We listen deeply and dream big. Organizers know ...

An all-boys charter school is gearing up to open this fall in a stately Dixwell Avenue building that neighbors stopped from becoming a methadone clinic two years ago. Over 30 neighborhood residents ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, UMass Boston ...