Achieving Our Country: An Academy of Citizen Activism

A Virtual Social Justice Convening of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice

May 20-21, 2021

This convening is created for activists, advocates, academics and artists who work at the grassroots level, to teach advocacy skills and create a national coalition of social justice collaborators. This virtual convening, to be held on May 20th and May 21st, will focus on three critical concerns: democracy, criminal legal system transformation, and COVID 19 pandemic resilience. Participants will hear inspiring keynote addresses, dynamic panel discussions, and experience an engaging teaching experience on advocacy.

Exonerating a History and a Heroine – Presidential Posthumous Pardon Petition on Behalf of Mrs. Callie House

Press Conference, Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Press conference will be held on the 123rd anniversary of the beginning of the federal proceedings against the foremother of the reparations movement and the first national reparations organization.

From Cycles of Harm to Cycles of Opportunity: Justice for Edna Mahan Correctional Facility and the State of New Jersey

Harvard Kennedy School Project Team

Read the report by students enrolled in “Creating Justice in Real Time”, an advocacy-focused course hosted by the Trotter Collaborative at HKS.

William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice Statement on the Buffalo, New York Shooting

The Trotter Collaborative

Once again, as faith communities across the country gathered for the Sabbath, many are traumatized by another mass shooting conducted in the United States.

The GI Bill Was One of the Worst Racial Injustices of the 20th Century. Congress Can Fix It.

Opinion by Cornell William Brooks and Linda J. Bilmes

Harvard faculty, Cornell William Brooks and Linda J. Bilmes explain how benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.

The avant guardian