Category: 2015 Winter

The biggest impact of being at Project South is that I came into a new realization, a new consciousness about life, through organizing. Everything that I’ve learned has informed me to want to create new systems, new lives, and impact my life and everyone I’m associated with – that’s what I eat for dinner. I…

By Rita Valenti Rita is based in Atlanta who worked as a staff nurse for 28 years with Grady Hospital in trauma and HIV/AIDS. A founder of Project South, she served on the board for over 15 years and remains a dedicated and active member. In 2007, Rita and other Project South members and partners…

By Emery Wright Emery Wright is the Co-Director of Project South and a native of Atlanta. This article is based on a keynote speech Emery made at Alternate ROOT’s Annual Meeting in August 2015. As the scholar and activist Scot Nakagawa has written, Blackness is the fulcrum of White Supremacy. In other words, Blackness and…

Infrastructure refers to the fundamental facilities and systems required for society to function. On one level that means bridges, roads, gas stations, and telephone lines. On another level it means schools, hospitals, courts, and banks – systems created to produce certain functionalities. On a third level it means something larger – the ways we relate…