Leaders of the Movement for Housing Justice | Nathan Cheung | Housing Now! YouTube video by Race Forward

Watch our full interview with Nathan Cheung, communications manager for Housing Now! youtu.be/hxixwH0E-cU?...

#HousingJusticeIsRacialJustice

.@housingnowca.bsky.social continues to use housing justice narratives rooted in arts and culture strategies to center working-class tenants. They also expose the harms of corporate landlords while uplifting community-led solutions like stronger tenant protections and funding social housing.

Participants leave with stronger frameworks, practical tools, and deeper clarity for racial justice work.

Join for our next training Tuesday, April 28! bit.ly/RF-PRE

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If power is not explicitly examined, it gets replicated—in organizations, in coalitions, and in movement spaces.

Our Power Building for Racial Equity training helps participants explore how systemic racism functions through power, and what it means to build collective, liberatory power in response.

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Housing Justice is Racial Justice YouTube video by Race Forward

This Fair Housing Month, Race Forward reminds you that #HousingJusticeIsRacialJustice. youtu.be/GY49cThlUqE

Today’s housing crisis and federal attacks on affordable housing exemplifies how property ownership is still deeply racialized. Now more than ever, we must work together toward a vision where housing is a public good, and everyone– regardless of their race–has affordable and dignified housing.

Invitation to speak at Facing Race 2026! — Facing Race: A National Conference

DON'T WAIT. APPLY TODAY!

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Time is running out for your chance to present at #FacingRace26!

Come with us to Raleigh to share your expertise at the largest, bi-annual conference for racial justice. You’ll be in community with advocates across movements and develop strategies for building, exercising, and reclaiming power.

Movement-Builders You Should Know - Colorlines Women Leading the Civil Rights StruggleGloria Richardson (1922-2021)Richardson was the leader of the Cambridge, Maryland Nonviolent Action Committee in the early 1960s, organizing against segregation,...

As #WomensHistoryMonth comes to a close, our latest Colorlines article celebrates the women leading the way for intersectional movements. See the incredible women shaping better protections for our lives through policy, grassroots organizing and narrative building.

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You can learn more about the Policy Innovation Lab here
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Supporting grassroots community organizing in this moment is critical because we know that vibrant and representative community organizations are a hallmark of a healthy democracy. This may also be one of our best defenses.

PIL positions local communities as owners and decision-makers over policies that directly impact their daily lives. We support grassroots, community-based coalitions by providing tools, capacity-building training, pass-through funding, and strategic support to advance racial and climate justice.

At Race Forward, climate justice is racial justice.

Our Policy Innovation Lab fortifies some of our communities’ most important climate resilience and mitigation assets: community-based organizations rooted in our neighborhoods that are on the frontlines of the environmental and climate crisis.

As an educator, storyteller, and intersectional movement leader, Leclercq established the Land Justice Community School to create a space for young activists to learn how to organize and engage in the critical history-telling that keeps movement infrastructure alive.

Alexia Leclercq (@alexialeclercq.bsky.social), a 26-year-old in Texas, is one of many activists challenging the environmental issues that exacerbate and multiply poor policy and health outcomes for people of color, disabled people, and women alike.

Photo of Alexia Leclercq in a black dress smiles beside a quote: "The exploitation of Mother Earth is so tied to the exploitation of women."

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we've highlighted the legacies of Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Alice Wong, and the ways that their work has shaped our work to meet the present moment. As drivers of their respective movements, their activism has greatly shaped the current environmental justice movement.

Teach Truth, Freedom Dream the Future #TeachTruth #America250

Looking for #NoKings sign ideas for today?

Here are a few.

Defend the #FreedomtoLearn and #TeachTruth

Email us your photos (zep@zinnedproject.org) or tag them #TeachTruth 🧵

Kids Over Corporations

Find more images from our friends at @raceforward.org Public School Strong, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, and more. Sign up for free "Kids Not Kings" toolkit, download access provided immediately. www.freethefuture.net/no-kings-too...

Register to join us Tuesday, April 14!

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For decades, harmful narratives have been strategically spread to create division, limit democracy, and institutionalize racial inequities.

But we can change that story.

Narrative Change for Racial Equity is a 3-hour Learning Lab designed to equip you with the insights to shape new narratives.

March 25, 1965: Last Selma March The Selma marches were three protest marches about voting rights, held in 1965.

#tdih 1965 last day of Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. MLK: “If it may be said of slavery that the white man took the world & gave the Negro Jesus, it may be said of Reconstruction that southern aristocracy took the world & gave poor white men Jim Crow”
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Invitation to speak at Facing Race 2026! — Facing Race: A National Conference

Have a session you’d like to propose? Submit your idea by April 1!

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Program tracks include:

– Organizing to Build Power
– Transforming Institutions to Shift Power
– Building Narrative Power
– Building Co-Governance Power

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Share your expertise at #FacingRace2026!

Race Forward is accepting session proposals aligned with this year’s theme— roots of resistance, powered by solidarity.

Most recently our work in Chicago has led to groups and organizers building shared decision-making partnerships with their local government leaders. Learn more about place-based strategies in Chicago at raceforward.org/place-based-strategies

One way Race Forward supports grassroots organizers is through building a collection of participatory models and practices so that government and communities can intentionally share power to drive fair and just outcomes.

Much of Baker’s work was rooted in grassroots organizing and equipping students, women and everyday people with the skills to build a participatory democracy.

The collective of over 200 students would go on to push forward through traditions of radical imagination and community education, galvanized by much of the same energy that still grips young activists today.

Baker’s desire to focus on grassroots movement-building led her to support the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She eventually returned to her alma mater, Shaw University, to support student activists–who would later form SNCC–with their vision for the movement.