Building Strong People Not Strong Leaders: Lessons on Leadership from Ella Baker By Barbara Ransby

toyamonique@hotmail.com — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0100

As a group of Ella’s Daughters prepare to head to my hometown of Detroit for the US Social Forum, I have been thinking long and hard on the question of leadership. ‘Strong people don’t need strong leaders,’ Ella Baker insisted. This provocative quote from the veteran organizer, radical intellectual, teacher and mentor, is for many people, counter-intuitive. That is, it goes against our gut feeling about what leadership is or should be. But Baker’s message, based on her decades of ac [...]

“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”

cjcarney@gmail.com — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”

By Amy Goodman

DENVER—Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. His wife, Elizabeth Edwards, was to speak also. Poverty was their focus. But they are not here because John Edwards had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about poverty?

Chris Chafe is a former senior adviser to the Edwards campaign. He is now the executive director of the Change to Win coalition, t [...]

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Building Strong People Not Strong Leaders: Lessons on Leadership from Ella Baker By Barbara Ransby

“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”