John L. McKnight, a professor of speech and urban affairs at Northwestern University, was an expert on community organizing and a keen researcher whose work focused on helping neighborhoods understand ...

Community organizer Fred Ross Sr was a key figure in progressive activism during the 20th century. He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer ...

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Tucson community organizer is asking city leaders to support or partially sponsor a city-sanctioned encampment. Armed with a stack of visual guides and possible programming ...

Lawmakers want President Obama to award Fred Ross Sr. a Medal of Freedom. March 19, 2013— -- In 1952, Fred Ross Sr. was combing the Latino barrios of San Jose, California, for places to hold ...

We’re in desperate need of broad-based community organizing these days. Many of the most tangible injustices in our world, both large and small, appear to be unresolvable through straightforward ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. When we think of democracy, we often picture elections, debates and the legislative process. But some ...

Cannon-Grant was accused of defrauding people who donated to her anti-violence nonprofit and spending much of the money on herself.