Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Jul 17, 2024 | forwardky.com | Berry Craig |Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce

“Have you heard about Project 2025?” Robert Reich asks in a follow up fund-raising email from Inequality Media Civic Action.

Jun 16, 2024 | convergencemag.com | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce

On Father’s Day 2024, which also falls on Eid-al-adha, please rise up with the spirit of Abidullah Al-Ansari Ghazi and Refaat Al Areer and watch this interview between Convergence Publisher Cayden Mak and Seemi Ghazi. Seemi Ghazi performs Refaat Alareer’s final poem, If I Must Die. “Sometimes a heart breaks.

May 20, 2024 | convergencemag.com | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce

Convergence Magazine and Seed the Vote co-sponsored a special online event introducing the concepts, content, and applications of the “Block & Build Syllabus: Left Strategy in the MAGA Era.” The event previewed the syllabus content, looked back at its development and shared early experiences of its use. You can download the slides from the event here and see the syllabus itself here.

Apr 17, 2024 | znetwork.org | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce

The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such as domestic workers and agricultural workers, are excluded. Now the right wing has its sights set on stripping away those rights won by more than a hundred years of hard organizing and bloody battles.

Sep 19, 2023 | tennessean.com | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Singer Jason Aldean’s narrative that small towns are for good ol’ boys with guns who are conservatively nationalistic is incomplete and dangerous. Ash-Lee Woodard HendersonGuest ColumnistAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson, activist for the Movement for Black Lives and co-executive director of the Highlander Research & Education Center. Jason Aldean’s hometown is majority Black. This isn’t what he implies, as he croons about life in a small town, though. I want to give Aldean the benefit of the doubt.