Kalonji Changa

Feb 13, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | August Clayton |Roberto Sirvent |Kalonji Changa

Book Forum Editor, Roberto Sirvent, interviews Austin Cole about his community organizing work and political writings. Roberto Sirvent: Can you please share a little bit about your background, including how you became involved in community organizing? Austin Cole: I grew up in Ohio to a family from the South (Mississippi and Alabama), and some of my biggest early influences were the stories of struggle, achievement, and service that I learned in my AME church and from my family.

Aug 22, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Kalonji Changa |Roberto Sirvent |Ahjamu Umi

Roberto Sirvent: Can you please share a little bit about your background, including how you became involved in community organizing? August K. Clayton: I can identify different moments where I was politicized as a student organizer, but also as a Black seropositive trans masculine person from rural Southern Maryland. It is a practice that I’ve been in, in movement to return to these points of activation as a catalyst for possibility when we organize around our conditions.