The Boston Ujima Project is the first democratically-run investment fund in the United States.
My latest post for On Saturn 🪐
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Received an extremely sweet end of year message in the actual mail - from Kimmie David who illustrated my June article in @convergencemag.com (bit.ly/49h8BHc). ✨🌿🪐
Last year, my bf and I went to a townhall with this guy (squint and you'll see us top right)
It was just after the election and we needed something positive to focus on. A smart, smiley socialist with an extremely long shot at the NYC mayoralty fit the bill.
And here we are!
🗽 MAYOR MAMDANI 🗽
This year, I've been working on a project to explore how we can take a smarter, more ambitious and coordinated approach to funding how UK social leaders learn, build power and look after themselves along the way.
Learn more: socialleadership.carrd.co
My mate @swajcmanearle.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the frightening rise of Farage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
"Silence has costs. It feeds the narrative that DEI was a fad...it gives oxygen to those who insist that the only way forward is to mute identity in favor of class, a dangerous bargain with a losing record."
Another brilliant piece by @daxdev.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reform MP Sarah Pochin: “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are basically anything other than White.”
If the colour of someone else’s skin drives you ‘mad’, you are a Grade-A racist.
What a country. This should be on every front page. A national scandal. Britain 2024.
This headline was published in the Detroit Free Press in 1974. Stevie had been considering emigrating to escape American racial injustice.
It took 50 years before his plan to come to fruition. He became a citizen of Ghana on May 13, 2024—his 74th birthday.
lifeonsaturn.substack.com/p/stevies-ut...
On Saturn is an adventure into the future. Together, we’ll explore the projects and ideas that foretell the next world—one in which we are free of the tyranny of today.
With beautiful illustrations by Ngadi Smart.
lifeonsaturn.substack.com
“I feel like I'm seeing an ED transition email every other week…people are less willing to tough it out and be the martyr”
I spoke to three leaders of colour who came up through the pandemic about where we find ourselves now.
Read in @npquarterly.bsky.social
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Women and people of color achieved meaningful gains in 2020, but now see dwindling support, political backlash, and persistent systemic challenges. Read more from @jackdgraham.bsky.social nonprofitquarterly.org/after-the-up... #leadership #nonprofits
“Struggle is par for the course when our dreams go into action. But unless we have the space to imagine and a vision of what it means fully to realize our humanity, all the protests and demonstrations in the world won’t bring about our liberation.”
Robin D. G. Kelley
Ideas that germinate at the margins sometimes flourish in the centre ground.
The Black Panthers didn’t win the revolution they were fighting for but they did win a small but important dignity for American kids: breakfast. 🍳
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“Showing Black and white people sitting at a lunch counter together was science fiction.”
adrienne maree brown
Our first podcast episode is a conversation between our founder @jackdgraham.bsky.social and @joshbabarinde.bsky.social.
Josh is a Year Here Fellow, an accomplished social entrepreneur, the first Black person elected to Parliament as a Lib Dem MP—and a survivor of domestic abuse.
Listen now.
Many years ago @joshbabarinde.bsky.social told me about the domestic abuse that he and his family experienced as a kid.
To hear the full extent of the abuse was heartbreaking.
This sunny young man, beloved by his peers, had lived through some serious darkness.
Some of the highlights of @jackdgraham.bsky.social's interview with Wendy Kopp.
Live now on How To Change Things: bit.ly/4kjbxqg
Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989 when she was just 21 years old. She raised $2.5 million and recruited 500 people to join the first cohort. BANANAS.
I spoke with Wendy about facing the critics and learning lessons along the way.
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Oh good point.
so they only went all the way through all the rounds last time was because any of the final three (Wiley, Garcia or Adams) could have won in the final round?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_York_City_Democratic_mayoral_primary#Results
I thought they eliminated the bottom-ranked candidate one by one. They did in 2021 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Ne...
Before interviewing Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America, I wanted to hear out the haters. Were they right? Is TFA an elitist, union-busting, status quo-maintaining, neoliberal project?
Here are the arguments:
And he still can’t say his name.
Trump is spoiling for a fight just like he did with BLM in 2020. The right to protest means sh!t to him.
In @convergencemag.com, I highlight a project doing the critical frontline work to defend our rights—and protect ourselves.
Support them at donorbox.org/peer-defense-project
bit.ly/43Q6cAA
Doechii said: “I want you all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us. What type of government is that?”
And she spoke with more courage and moral clarity than most Dems can muster.
My new piece in @convergencemag.com was inspired by something @sifill.bsky.social said at the beginning of the year about the end of harvest times in America.
As we face the horrific reality of 2025, we should emulate the leaders who weathered the storms of 2020.
convergencemag.com/articles/tom...
Stevie Wonder - songs in the key of life
