John L. McKnight, a professor of speech and urban affairs at Northwestern University, was an expert on community organizing and a keen researcher whose work focused on helping neighborhoods understand ...

This story was published in partnership with the Guardian. On November 4, while a blue wave was sweeping key races in New York City, Virginia, and New Jersey, Seattle progressives were biting their ...

The vast landscape east of Los Angeles known as the Inland Empire is among the fastest-growing regions in California, driven by a booming warehouse and logistics industry that keeps residents ...

Andrea Vidaurre, a 29-year-old Peruvian American organizer from Southern California, has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting her predominantly Latino community from ...

Walter “Slim” Coleman was a longtime activist and community organizer whose public profile rose during his time as supporter and adviser to Mayor Harold Washington in the 1980s. “He was a skillful ...

The burned truck of Rafael Romero, an organizer for Oregon Rural Action, is shown in this supplied photo. The environmental and social justice group said the truck was set on fire while they were at a ...

HOLYOKE — José Maldonado Velez doesn’t use his office much. The space above Nueva Esperanza’s storefront in South Holyoke has become something of a storage area for the Holyoke chapter of Neighbor to ...

On Tuesday, May 7, 2024, Kai Nishiki will be the speaker at the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset meeting. Nishiki is well known in the community for her advocacy on issues important to local residents ...

Community members and University of Iowa students gathered to call for justice and stronger protections for immigrants, following Jorge Elieser González Ochoa’s arrest at Bread Garden Market in ...

The Justice Democrats, a group that’s helped elect some of the fiercest progressives in Congress, just got its newest candidate: Darializa Avila Chevalier, an upper Manhattan community organizer ...