Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Amanda de Luis When Herbert Spencer coined the expression survival of the fittest as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection, little did Charles Darwin know this concept would have an expansive influence in the...
Text By: Dontrese Brown & Craig Martin Photographs By: Kimberly FrostIn memory of Representative John Lewis and Arthur Ashe Louisville to RichmondCraig Martin, Co-Host The Good Road Dontrese, we're out there at the VMFA [Virginia Museum of Fine Art] on a very...
By North Carolina Black Alliance staff A NATION ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING Increased attacks on voting rights, ramped up gerrymandering, the January 6th insurrection, and the endless stream of videos of unarmed Black and Brown men and women killed in unjustified police...
By Sandy Cyr Around midnight one evening several years ago, Caitlin Gooch decided to look up the literacy rates in her area. She landed on a website that listed reading and math scores by demographics for every single school in her state. At each school she clicked...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Lisa Hyatt - Overture International Here’s a hard truth some of our colleagues in the NGO world may not like…STAY OUT OF HAITI! And it’s not because of the reasons that immediately come to mind such as the political unrest, gang...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Charlena Wynn In the last decade or so, displaying Black art has become in vogue, highlighted by a desire to appear as a post-racial society while simultaneously witnessing Black death online and in real life. In the wake of...
By Craig Martin The conversation about Joe Rogan and Spotify shifted from COVID vaccinations to racism and artist equity once a review of Rogan’s podcast revealed that he had repeatedly used the “n” word on his show. Suddenly, buzz words like “cancel culture” began...
Craig Martin – Co-Host The Good RoadWe haven’t known each other long but everything about you inspires me. Tell me about the passion you have for your music and your community, why am I so inspired? Rodney “the Soul Singer” StithI guess you can see something in me...
Black lives matter. We shouldn’t even need such a statement. And yet here we are. Police brutality and systematic racism continue to overwhelmingly affect the Black community. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 with the social media hashtag,...
Special to the Philanthropy JournalBy Erich Bridges Ramona Burton made history in January, and that’s no exaggeration. Burton, 72, a retired widow, was selected for a $25,000 grant she plans to use to fix up the house she’s lived in for 46 years in Evanston, Illinois....
