Category: 2014 Winter

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…