...professionals at a range of leading companies, including Autodesk, IDEO, IBM, Intel, Levi's and PG&E — as well as the Ella Baker Center, Environmental Defense Fund, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Pacific Institute. And more to come. Seating is limited....
...Quarterly Press publication. It is also known for systemic police abuse and misconduct. A former WITNESS partner, Ella Baker Center, leads Bay Area PoliceWatch, a campaign since 1995 that works to protect the community from police misconduct and advocate...
...Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950), Walter White (1893-1955), Medgar Evers (1925-1963), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), Ella Baker (1903-1986) and Ruby Hurley (1909-1980). Love is in the air with Love: King and Queen of Hearts, the latest additions in the...
...interactive multimedia exhibit chronicling the lives of civil rights trailblazers such as Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King and Ella J. Baker. What: Escape to Broadway, if only for a few hours, while watching one of the most successful musical theater productions...
...in 1963; Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who fought for black voting rights; lifetime activist Ella Baker and NAACP leader Ruby Hurley. Meanwhile, Anna Julia Cooper will be No. 32 in the postal service's Black Heritage series. The...
...idealism call to mind another black orator who recently found success. It is not lost on Jones — who, as co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, spent much of the ’90s organizing around criminal justice and urban issues — that he received exponentially...
...Center for Public Representation/Center for Children's Advocacy; the Citizen's Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending; the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; Families Against Mandatory Minimums; the Frameworks...
...work most at the front of the line to do the work that needs to be done most," said Jakadi Imani, the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which played a leading role in co-founding the corps. Although the economy appears to be in...
...that I needed to take on police brutality and the criminal justice system. I did it with fervor, helping to build the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Bay Area Police Watch, Books Not Bars and other groups. But I really burned out -- just too many funerals,...
...higher power. One woman who has lost two sons spoke about her sorrow and how she found the will to carry on. Nicole Lee of the Ella Baker Center's "Silence the Violence" campaign said it's important for those who have lost someone to know the community has...