https://colorlines.com/articles/case-co-governance-our-foundational-argument <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Case for Co-Governance: Our Foundational Argument </span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>psam</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2026-06-24T14:39:10-04:00" title="Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 14:39" class="datetime">Wed, 06/24/2026 - 14:39</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-cl-tag field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/tags/co-governance" hreflang="en">Co-Governance</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Co-governance is a collection of participatory models and practices in which government and communities work together through formal and informal structures to make collective policy decisions, co-create programs to meet community needs, and make sure those policies and programs are implemented effectively. </p><p>With co-governance, community members are not solely asked for feedback or input after decisions are made. They are partners in defining problems, setting priorities, allocating resources, and establishing systems of accountability. </p><p>When rooted in racial justice, co-governance centers a systemic analysis of the problem and its racialized root causes and seeks to grow the leadership and power of people who are most harmed by structural racism and systems of inequity.</p><p>Co-governance can take many forms across contexts, including executive and legislative branches of government. A few familiar examples include:</p><ol><li>Civic assemblies</li><li>Participatory budgeting</li><li>Community oversight boards</li><li>Co-enforcement models</li></ol><h4>What is the case for co-governance? </h4><ol><li><strong>Co-Governance Combats Authoritarianism:</strong> Authoritarianism is enabled by an environment that erodes the relationships, institutions, and shared commitments that democratic societies rely on. Co-governance is a direct antidote to this unraveling. By creating structured opportunities for communities to engage in civic solutioning, deepen political and systems knowledge, build durable and accountable organizations, and strengthen their commitment to mutuality, co-governance replenishes the social infrastructure that democracy depends on.</li><li><strong>Co-Governance Builds Civic Trust: </strong>Millions of people, particularly those who have been historically excluded and harmed, have concluded that government cannot and will not work for people like them. Repair of this kind of broken trust requires more than changed outcomes; it requires a change in the way we get to those outcomes. Co-governance offers a different pathway by honoring the social contract more fully.</li><li><strong>Co-Governance Helps Communities of Color Build Power: </strong>Racial equity is not achievable through representation alone. Co-governance can create structures that bring more people impacted by structural racism into genuine partnership with governing institutions as co-architects of policy and practice solutions, not token voices. </li><li><strong>Co-Governance Delivers Better Outcomes for Everyone: </strong>Co-governance works practically, measurably, and durably. When communities are genuine partners in designing and implementing policy, the results are more responsive, effective, and resilient than what top-down governance produces alone. Co-governance helps institutional leaders and public agencies develop stronger policies, make better budget choices, improve implementation, and course-correct when things don’t go as planned.</li><li><strong>Co-Governance is Proven: History and Practice Show it Works: </strong>Co-governance is not a utopian aspiration. It has deep roots in human political history and is being practiced with measurable success in contexts around the world and across the United States. Indigenous governance traditions have long embodied principles of shared decision-making and relational accountability that contemporary co-governance frameworks draw upon and must honor. Co-governance is not one-size-fits-all. Its forms must be adapted to the specific contexts, histories, and communities where it takes root.</li><li><strong>Co-Governance Builds Legitimacy by Making Democracy Something You Do, Not Just Something You Receive: </strong>When people feel that the political system is not designed for them and believe the outcome is determined before they arrive, they disengage. Research and lived experience consistently confirm that people who have experienced this kind of civic trauma do not simply need to see different results. They need to experience a different process to know that the change is real. Co-governance creates visible, recurring evidence that participation yields real influence. Over time, this transforms political identity. People move from understanding themselves as subjects acted upon by government to citizens who act, shape, and share ownership of what the nation produces.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/case-co-governance-our-foundational-argument" data-a2a-title="The Case for Co-Governance: Our Foundational Argument "><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Article</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">3 minutes</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cl-article-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2026-06/IMG_2904.JPG" width="4898" height="3265" alt="A Black man wearing a black shirt and hat is standing and speaking on a microphone in the middle of a small group while a group of participants look up at him paying close attention." /> </div> </div> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:39:10 +0000 psam 52120 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/housing-justice-racial-justice <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Housing Justice is Racial Justice</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:23:36-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:23" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:23</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A video to help you start a conversation with your neighbors and colleagues about how important it is to use a racial justice frame to achieve real wins for housing. Credit: Doug Miles (Instagram @steezyapache)</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/housing-justice-racial-justice" data-a2a-title="Housing Justice is Racial Justice"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">4 mins</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/SignGraphicFinal22_0%20%281%29.webp" width="320" height="180" alt="Graphic" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY49cThlUqE</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:23:36 +0000 Anonymous 52066 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/women-transcend-teaser <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Women Transcend Teaser</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:20:27-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:20" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:20</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>.</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/women-transcend-teaser" data-a2a-title="Women Transcend Teaser"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUvLto5ido</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:20:27 +0000 Anonymous 52061 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/supreme-court-case-affirmative-action-explained <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action, Explained</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:17:21-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:17" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:17</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Today, by a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court undermined equal opportunity in higher education by holding that the UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard College affirmative action programs, which consider race as one factor of many as part of a holistic admissions process, violated the Equal Protection Clause. We asked our friends at the Advancement Project to help us understand what this case means for the future of affirmative action, what is at stake and what we can do. Watch as Carmen Daugherty, Deputy Executive Director, Advancement Project helps us place the case and the subsequent decision of the Court in historical and contemporary context, understand the implications and possible courses of action.</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/supreme-court-case-affirmative-action-explained" data-a2a-title="Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action, Explained"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">5.5 mins</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/Carmen-Explainer-Fine.00_00_00_03.Still001-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Carmen Daugherty, Deputy Executive Director, Advancement Project explains the affirmative action SCOTUS decision against a teal background." /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/SD4aG-5lo3Q</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:17:21 +0000 Anonymous 52056 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/education-democracys-battleground <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Education: Democracy’s Battleground?</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:13:43-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:13" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:13</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>James E. Ford, PhD, Executive Director of The Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED), offers a framework to understand schools and education as historically contested sites to determine the viabilities of true multiracial democracy in the United States.</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/education-democracys-battleground" data-a2a-title="Education: Democracy’s Battleground?"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">4 mins</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/colorlines-education-has-always-been-500x600-1-jpg.webp" width="500" height="600" alt="James E. Ford" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/hwUvLto5ido</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:13:43 +0000 Anonymous 52051 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/what-healing-justice <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">What Is Healing Justice</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:06:11-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:06" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:06</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Cara Page and Erica Woodard establish foundational contexts and principles for understanding Healing Justice as a political framework for collective liberation.</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/what-healing-justice" data-a2a-title="What Is Healing Justice"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/Final-Healing-Justice-Explainer_1.mp4_.00_01_29_03.Still001-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Erica Woodland stands in a forested setting and explains what healing justice is and how it's connected to collective liberation." /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/bVQWtDmwrJ8</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:06:11 +0000 Anonymous 52046 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/be-safe-make-it-home <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Be Safe Make It Home</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T16:03:28-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 16:03" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 16:03</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Be Safe, Make It Home</p><p><br>Collective Vérité<br>    Featuring DeJuan Bland & Brittney Charisse</p><p><br>DeJuan Bland:<br>Angela Davis once said</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>“We know the road to freedom is often stalked by death”</p><p>Both:<br>Be Safe, Make It Home</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>I remember those words cascading from my mother’s tongue the day we mourned Phillando<br>Speaking to her son with skin just like his <br>And after an eternity of silence</p><p>Brittney Charisse:  <br>I looked at the phone and said</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>“Ma, I’ll try”</p><p>Brittney Charisse: <br>I remember feeling invincible</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>Invisible they don't see the soul beneath this canvas of brown wrapped around bones</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>They told me that my tinted skin didn't matter because of my gender</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>Turning sanctuary to sanitation for them we've all been children of Brenda</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>Said because I was a womb/ I wouldn't get wounded,/until the shock of Sandra and the shot to Rekia shook me back to my black melanated skin/ My life earthquaked/ when those patriotic lights shined in my window... I used to tell you to make it home safely…</p><p>Both:<br>now I tell myself.</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>“Cuz it Seems like we learned to fear before we learned to dream<br>We learned that dreams seem too much like distractions<br>Just islands of our own imagination we vacation on<br>And this body needs all the attention I have right now</p><p>Brittney Charisse: <br>I knew they found you inferior and that they were inferior but I was ignorant that I had to cover my black too</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>And you were the closest heaven I could back to<br>Now I stay woke with you</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>Because dreams… dreams are like living in the fairytale land of free.  And that’s not home for me… Or you.  We just slide into home safe by chance, not because we’re brave. for it’s one, one, one strike we’re out in their game<br>In fact I live in fear</p><p>DeJuan Bland: <br>That one day your body won't be home to your soul</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>And the toll of past memories will leave me in ruin<br>Can't dance or sing or joke with the one I love most</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>I’ll just sit around comparing normal activities to the ghost stories that move me<br>we’ve filmed too much for us to un-see it<br>The truth fears being black mirrors something far too close to horror</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>I'm Petrified that when you say goodbye</p><p><br>Both:<br>you're really saying remember me.</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>That fear grips my soul scared that even our own will try to snatch your breath because they see the difference in the tone from your lips, can smell your accomplishments, and see your future. five senses turn senseless because they didn’t know that you were mirror to them</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>Couldn't rock with the scars pride left, they</p><p>Both:<br>Rather leave me lying lifeless under their feet</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>But see those are the rules of the jungle when some want to be king <br>And you're looked at as the little pet in their way</p><p>Both<br>They want you to be subjected under their feet<br>I mean this could happen anywhere</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>dark places, family conversations, to me it's all monkey business <br>But for black bodies this is the circle of life</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>Be safe,</p><p>Both:<br>Make it home</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>‘Cuz if I don’t what language could you speak to Lazarus the joy back into my mother’s bones<br>Or what song would you have them play before they close my casket shut<br>Anything other than “Ambition Az a Ridah” will be taken as blatant disrespect</p><p>Brittney Charisse: <br>If I don’t… What legacy besides martyr? what hope? Just exalted Sorrow. <br>What Peace? Besides a televised piece of history name scrolling... you’ll be seeing in red.</p><p>Both:<br>Do not let our tales be some drop in a bucket, social media, think pieces</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>Some tacky, unstudied rant giving to break the monotony of Sunday Morning service</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>If we don’t bring these bodies home</p><p>Both:<br>consider it as a war on God’s artwork</p><p>Brittney Charisse:<br>Be fearful, do pray, but I pray your silence taste like poison on your lips</p><p>DeJuan Bland:<br>And I pray, your indifference is met with sleep protesting your body</p><p>Both:<br>I pray, this body doesn’t become another spark for the movement<br>Be human, be black, be careful, be son, be daughter<br>Be Safe, Make it Home<br> </p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/be-safe-make-it-home" data-a2a-title="Be Safe Make It Home"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/Final-cut-be-safe-make-it-home.00_03_32_08.Still002-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Spoken word poets perform "Be Safe, Make It Home" against a white background." /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/3CPkrlV8iPE</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:03:28 +0000 Anonymous 52041 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/dejuan-bland-citizens-ship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">DeJuan Bland - Citizen's Ship</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T15:59:37-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 15:59" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 15:59</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Black man, where is home for you <br>Is it in your women<br>Your mother or sisters, or lovers<br>They took them and broke them before you when you got off slave ship to say<br>You don’t have the power to save them</p><p>They’ve told the black man don’t be home<br>We’ll take food out of the mouths of your children and partners and mothers and sister<br>And decades later pops still ain’t back from the milk run at the store</p><p>Black man, where is home for you<br>Is it in your brother<br>Are you his keeper<br>Are you Nino atop the Carter <br>Do you see your brother as someone to love or slaughter</p><p>They taught the world we can’t trust black men and we were all in the classroom</p><p>Black man don’t leave your home<br>You can’t jog to train or hop on a train <br>Can’t ride with your wife or your daughter<br>Can’t be a boy, whose no man at all,</p><p>Black man, where do you find home<br>Is it your work<br>You dream of hardwood courts and grass field <br>Those dreams get taken away if you kneel <br>Are you politician, then you dirty<br>Cops dirty, they target the corner boys<br>Corner boys just teenagers with a street sign for father<br>Stick up kid or cubicle the black man just wants to feel loved</p><p>To feel home, and whole, and healthy<br>Is that what it means to be citizen<br>Is that what it is</p><p>Is that real, is that something the black man can really have<br>Don’t want to sell my people this dream, this lie<br>Won’t be any better than the corner boy with his crack<br>Won’t be less harmful than the crack of master’s whip<br>Can’t say be citizen, be protest<br>Just kneel, we seen them snatch Colin’s dream</p><p>Don’t want the black man to hurt more than he already is<br>Do you feel that?</p><p>Can we really sail away on the citizen’s ship</p><p>Black people<br>Still be people<br>Still chase the dream that is home<br>Or citizen<br>Without the chase we have nothing<br>Without the gospel, though the road be narrow, we’d all be sinners<br>Without the pursuit of healing we’d all just be broken<br>We can’t just be broken<br>Or broke, or homeless<br>Though it may never be mansion<br>May never be palace lets still seek kingdom<br>Not just refuge but being full in our bodies<br>On this current, this wave, there’s roam for us on this citizen’s ship </p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/dejuan-bland-citizens-ship" data-a2a-title="DeJuan Bland - Citizen's Ship"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/CL-Citizens-ship-thumbnail-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="CL Citizen's ship thumbnail" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/MpqEZqzJkKA</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:59:37 +0000 Anonymous 52036 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/belonging-and-radical-love-ballroom-community-conversation <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Belonging and Radical love: A Ballroom Community Conversation</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T15:56:50-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 15:56" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 15:56</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Members of the Ballroom community convey stories of security and belonging.</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/belonging-and-radical-love-ballroom-community-conversation" data-a2a-title="Belonging and Radical love: A Ballroom Community Conversation"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">5 mins</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/CL-Ballroom-thumbnail-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="One person watching a second person talking in a green room." /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/FEnCZ6b2HuY</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:56:50 +0000 Anonymous 52031 at https://colorlines.com https://colorlines.com/articles/courage-contagious-alejandra-gomezs-organizing-journey <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Courage is Contagious: Alejandra Gomez’s Organizing Journey</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-26T15:53:52-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 15:53" class="datetime">Tue, 08/26/2025 - 15:53</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Alejandra Gomez, Executive Director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), speaks about how the courage to exercise one’s voice against injustice can encourage others to enact theirs around a shared purpose, which over time can catalyze move</p></div> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_50 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://colorlines.com/articles/courage-contagious-alejandra-gomezs-organizing-journey" data-a2a-title="Courage is Contagious: Alejandra Gomez’s Organizing Journey"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <div class="field field--name-field-media-type field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Video</div> <div class="field field--name-field-reading-time field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">5 mins</div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-poster field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2025-08/CL-Alex-Story-thumbnail-jpg.webp" width="1920" height="1080" alt="A person with long hair and a black shirt with a flower sitting in a chair facing the camera." /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-video-url field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">https://youtu.be/r8KCYIN__Z4</div> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:53:52 +0000 Anonymous 52026 at https://colorlines.com