by Joshua Vincent | Feb 26, 2023 | Movement Building, Thought Leadership
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...
by Joshua Vincent | Feb 15, 2021 | Thought Leadership
On February 1, SVA welcomed a new interim Executive Director, Joshua Vincent. We couldn’t be more excited for Josh’s leadership. Josh has served as a Board Chair since SVA’s inception and is deeply committed to our values and strategy. He brings two decades of...
by Elena Everett | Feb 15, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Over the past decade, the Southern movement landscape has shifted dramatically. In 2014, the year Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) was founded, the global movement for Black lives was just taking off. We were only a few years removed from Occupy Wall Street, and still a...
by Loan Tran | Dec 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
I’ll just leave a few brief reflections as an appreciation and offering to our movement family for our years of partnership and camaraderie: It is difficult, tedious, and sometimes boring work to build organization, but it is worth it. Our people need organization....
by Wesley Morris | Oct 27, 2020 | Movement Building, Thought Leadership
Nov 9th, 2016 I am not afraid. I am however, terrifyingly aware of the danger that this election season means to my body and the bodies of my people, friends that go to sleep and wake up in the world as the targets of white racism, the fear of difference and the...
by Beau Cromartie | May 12, 2020 | Thought Leadership
By: Southern Vision Alliance In 2009, North Carolina held off-year, local elections. With only 5% of voters turning out, Art Pope, a millionaire backer of small government and anti-migrant think tanks, financed a slate of candidates to take over the Wake County school...
