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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

In the swamp, there are “over 850 plant species and 400 vertebrate animals,” Hunter told me. 3 There’s a history in that phrase. Outside agitators” was often used as a bludgeon against many in the Civil Rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and others who came up after him. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

But they’ve asked us—institutional leaders with resources and capacity—to stay with them; to stay woke. But they’ve asked us—institutional leaders with resources and capacity—to stay with them; to stay woke. And workers asked us to do it not just for them but for all of us and our desire to live in a healthy democracy.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Most worker co-ops saw and still see themselves as embedded within a broader movement for economic justice. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Until it was. The tides were turning.