Francisco Perez

Nov 1, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Simon Adetona Akindes |Esteban Morales Dominguez |Francisco Perez |Francisco Salas Pérez |Sean Jacobs

In January 2019, I visited Santiago, Cuba, on a study abroad program, with seven of my students. They wanted to see and experience the “mythic” land about which single-sided stories predominate: a litany of distorted accounts of a malfunctioning society; a country that hung on to communism, an obsolete ideology; hyperbolic tales of repression; hordes fleeing an ugly communist dictatorship; a country training terrorists to harm the rest of the world, etc.

Nov 1, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rithika Ramamurthy |Malaika Jabali |Steve Dubb |Francisco Perez |Francisco Pérez

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world.

Nov 1, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rithika Ramamurthy |Malaika Jabali |Steve Dubb |Francisco Perez |Francisco Pérez

Greta Weiss and Andrea Schiller’s newly released documentary The Five Demands tells the story of how the first state-mandated, state-funded educational opportunity program in the United States gave rise to a student movement for multiracial solidarity. It features present-day interviews of students from the classes of the early 1970s who were some of the only students of color at CCNY.

Nov 1, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Rithika Ramamurthy |Malaika Jabali |Francisco Perez |Francisco Pérez

Atlanta is well known as a leading site of the Black middle class and has long been a cultural hub of the Black South. But despite political and cultural gains that have led to the city’s “Wakanda” reputation, Atlanta is also home to a very stark racial wealth divide, according to a new report authored by Alex Camardelle and Jarryd Bethea on behalf of the nonprofit Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative.

Oct 31, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Francisco Perez |Sarah Wang |Chidinma Iwu |Aiko Schaefer |Francisco Pérez

Nearly all grassroots groups agree that education about the economy is essential. But rarely is education treated as urgent. Mobilizing to protect a working-class family from eviction is an emergency; helping members understand why housing markets are unlikely to deliver affordable, high-quality housing in sufficient numbers is not.