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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…

Les Etienne, Education & Research Director, and Ash-Lee Henderson, Regional Organizer, interviewed Jaribu Hill, the founder of the Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference (SHROC). A biannual gathering of southern leadersJaribu’s work through the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights and so many organizations over decades has contributed to the Black Radical Tradition in countless ways.…

By Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson Ash-Lee is the Regional Organizer at Project South and lives in Chattanooga TN where she also works with Concerned Citizens for Justice, a local group fighting racism, violence, and police brutality Flash-point moments are catalysts in the lives of young people, launching us into life-long commitments to the struggle for Black…

By Emery Wright Emery Wright has worked at Project South for over 10 years and serves as the Co-Director. Sitting outside under the night sky and under the cover of massive oak trees draped with Spanish Moss in St. Augustine, Florida last summer I sat on the wall outside St. Paul’s AME church debriefing the…