Movement Journalism: The Journalism We Need For Liberation
The journalism that is written today shapes tomorrow. Journalism is remembered in our history books as vital to many progressions society has made in the modern era. Journalists play an important role in their community as a source of information for their...
Queer Mobilization Fund: $100,000 for Queer Liberation
The Queer Mobilization Fund has exciting news - and an urgent appeal for your support! To meet the needs of southern LGBTQ+ organizing, we need to raise an additional $100,000 by June 2023. Since our relaunch in Spring 2020, we have been intentionally growing the...
The Queer Mobilization Fund needs your support!
The Queer Mobilization Fund steadily grew our program in 2022! We were able to increase our grantmaking by over $30k for a total of $125,470 in small grants to 23 QTBIPOC grantees across 9 states. That makes our total granting to date over $348,000 to nearly 70...
Organizing Against White Supremacy and Fascism
On December 3rd, 2022, white supremacists attacked an electric grid station in Moore County, NC in response to a drag show in the county. This drag show featured performers from the Durham, NC based House of Coxx, who organize drag performances across North Carolina...
Op-Ed: All Weapons Are Lethal in the Hands of the Police
Darryl Williams, 32, was tased to death by Raleigh police on January 18 while unarmed and attempting to flee. Lovingly referred to as “Boo Boo,” Williams is one of more than 1,000 people who have been killed by police with tasers since 2000. More than 90 percent of...
Black History Month reflections: How can our Southern grassroots movements create lasting structural change?
Originally published in Scalawag. In the U.S. South, race is one of the most significant hurdles to our social political progress. Racialized geographies haunt our daily interactions. They are infused into our collective memory banks, dictating much of the ways we...
Statement on Attacks in Moore County
The attacks in Moore County, NC are just the latest in an ongoing string of attacks against the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender and the drag communities. Recently, the Charlotte Observer reported that North Carolina is tied with Texas for the highest...
September Updates from SVA Sponsored Projects & Frontline Funds
NC Truth Justice Reconciliation Statewide Summit Beloved Community Center (Greensboro, NC)On January 20, 2022, an interracial and intergenerational group of 26 grassroots, social justice, and religious leaders met in person at the First Baptist Church in Raleigh;...
Creating Cultural Learning Spaces for Black Youth in North Carolina
#BlackSELSummit 2022The Black SEL Summit looks to reach, teach and build a system of strong black leaders that understand the importance of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and ways to expose and sustain SEL in black communities. The 2nd Annual Black SEL Summit will...
Summer Updates from SVA Sponsored Projects & Frontline Funds
Community Empowerment Fund (Durham, NC)On August 20th, 4pm to 6pm, @ the Bull, join the Community Empowerment Fund for a 30 for 30 rally! Thirty for Thirty is a rally advocating that 30% of future affordable housing developments be designed for people making 30% of...
