Lead contributor Delma Jackson and a host of other voices from the CWC team invite us into a space where the past meets the present and informs the future—a space of self-reflection, personal accountability, history, futurism, and our ever-evolving ideas of community, solidarity, and justice.
Intersections of Trauma, Courage and Vulnerability: Living into the Legacy of MLK
There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Audre Lorde Forward: The Civil Rights Movement married the principles of social justice with the sensibilities of the Southern Baptist Church–which included, among other social…
An Offering of Fellowship & Solidarity
Turn off your computer. Put down your phone.Pick up a feather, a leaf, a bone.Marvel at a flower. Plant a seed. Take a walk.Remember who you are.Be generous with your love.Protect someone. Take a stand.Make art. Dance with strangers.Find your…
Story as a Practice of Imagining: The Day Immigrants Took Over
by Josh Carrera The Mayday Festival of Resistance took place at Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, April 28, 2018. Pictured from left to right: Sandy Nurse, Josh Carrera, Nitty Scott, Zyad Hammad In all shapes and sizes,…
Rooted in the Earth
When I take the time to really slow down and tune into my breath, the silence, nature, I begin to experience myself as part of the larger whole of life. I feel power, depth, connection. I feel alive. I sense…
Thanksgiving as Practice
In Ayurveda, Fall is the season of wind – a season of transition and, at times, turbulence that can leave us feeling ungrounded and pulled in too many directions, or feeling anxious or scared. It helps me sometimes to remind…
New Haven to Charlottesville: Why We All Need to Tell a New Story
I’m sitting at home just outside Flint, Michigan, watching the violence unfold in Charlottesville, Virginia, while thinking about the work Center for Whole Communities conducted in New Haven, Connecticut less than a week ago. I’m trying to write and track…
Reflections on Whole Thinking in Practice
Center for Whole Communities hosted our annual Whole Thinking in Practice retreat in northern California last year. Though currently based between Western Mass and NYC, Dr. Kofi-Charu Nat Turner – one of last year’s retreat participants – grew up in…
The Hidden Tax of Our Work
by Josh Carrera If emotions and intellect were currency, I may soon be going broke. As a person of color from a working class background, I feel like I often pay an emotional or intellectual tax when I am engaged…
Take Nothing Personally: The Rise of the Network
At this time in our history we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment we do so, our spiritual growth comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish…
“Can I Help You With That?” An Invitation to Hold Each Other Under the Crushing Weight of the Universe’s Moral Arc
We have fought hard and long for integration…But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house…. Let us not stand by and let the house burn.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [I]f the Masters house caught on fire, the…
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