Inaugural Issue of Root & Brach Magazine

Advancement Project Launches Inaugural Issue of Root & Brach Magazine

Root & Branch is Advancement Project’s national Web-based digital magazine. Root & Branch seeks to help build grassroots movements from the bottom up by sharing thoughtful analysis aimed at uprooting systemic racism. In each quarterly issue, readers will hear thoughtful analysis from grassroots leaders, organizers, and funders, who are working toward progressive change on matters of race. In each issue, readers will hear the ideas of Advancement Project, a civil rights organization dedicated to racial justice, along with the ideas of grassroots leaders, organizers, scholars, and funders who are working toward progressive change on matters of race.

In this edition, we focus on the importance of multiracial alliances as a means to build a more inclusive, equitable nation. Multiracial alliances can be found within a single organization or in collaboration among multiple organizations. The key is that different races and ethnic groups work together to achieve the interests of all participants. Multiracial alliances can increase the power of individual groups and provide an opportunity for creative thinking about how to dismantle the structures that are dividing communities of color.

Then there’s the story of the struggles of Padres and Jovenes Unidos in Denver, which in their work to end the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track in public schools, revamped the school-discipline code to focus on prevention and intervention for typical school misbehavior while seeking an end to racial disparities.

You will also read about the Right ToThe City Alliance, a growing movement in which poor and working-class communities of color, including immigrants and LGBT people, are battling corporate elites who place profit over the health, education and the welfare of people and an interview with Damon Azali-Rojas, a community organizer with the Los Angeles-based Labor/Community Strategy Center, which has created multiracial alliances around labor, environmental and transportation issues.

Make sure to check out Counter-Spin, Race in Review, and Advancing Racial Justice desks to get news you can use and the Reading Race section that reviews Malcolm Gladwell’s popular book, Outliers, through the lens of race.

We hope this premier issue provokes thought about your work and goals and that you will let us know what was interesting and what was not—we will print reader feedback in our next issue. We believe that growth will emerge when ideas are shared fully and challenged.

Now read on!

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