Voting for Our Neighborhood! Community Organizing & Voter Engagement
Jade and David discuss doorknocking strategy By Aiden Graham This election cycle, People’s Durham took on our most ambitious voter engagement program yet. With the help of a group called Black...
View ArticleResident Council Elections in the Mac
By Sendolo Diaminah Almost two years ago People’s Durham began organizing in McDougald Terrace (“the Mac”), Durham’s largest and oldest public housing project. Over this time we have organized against...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Residents at Lincoln?
By Aiden Graham Early meeting in the Lincoln anti-eviction campaign This October Durham’s critical affordable housing shortage once again made front page news. The most recent episode, a crisis...
View ArticlePeople’s Durham Aids Local Residents
Below is an article that was published in the Hillside Chronicle about our recent campaign at Lincoln… People’s Durham receives the 2013 Citizen’s Award from Independent Weekly By Adriana Penley Staff...
View ArticlePeople’s Durham Wins 2013 INDY Citizen’s Award
Every year INDY Week, a Triangle weekly newspaper, honors “those who fight for social justice” at their Citizen’s Awards Banquet. Last year one of our founding members, Ray Eurqhart or Brother Ray,...
View ArticlePeople’s Durham: Giving residents a say in their destiny
Recently People’s Durham has received a fair amount of press because of our work around the affordable housing crisis in Durham. Below is an article that was published in the INDY Week when we...
View ArticleVolunteer for our Summer Free Lunch Program in McDouglad Terrace
We’ll be running a free lunch program for the entire month of July in McDougald Terrace, the public housing community where we do a lot of work. The program will run Monday through Friday. Every day...
View ArticleWhy A Public School Teacher is Choosing to Get Arrested
Today, June 17, 2013, North Carolinians gathered for the seventh “Moral Monday” protest at the North Carolina Legislative Building. Since late May, thousands have protested the General Assembly’s...
View ArticleEducating Women
As a teacher, I spend eight hours a day with young people who are in the process of figuring out who they are. As they grow, they absorb what their families, friends, leaders, and the media say about...
View ArticleNo More Zimmermans
Reflections from a Teacher, Uncle, and Activist I’ve been an activist, organizer, and high school teacher who has thought about and worked on questions of race and justice for my entire adult life....
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