By Kelsea Norris, Director of Donor Organizing and Resident Astrologer Extraordinaire, Center for Popular Democracy Disclaimer: no one on our staff is a professional, or even amateur, astrologer. We offer these in the spirit of fun and encourage you to consult some of our favorite real astrologers like Jessica Lanyadoo…

By Michele L Kilpatrick Co-Director of Advocacy and Mobilization That is how my mother explained to me what happened to her godsister, Leola, as we drove around running errands one afternoon. As the youngest of five, my mother’s stories about childhood were always peppered with the frustrations of being told…

By Luis Sanchez, Senior Media Relations Manager, Center for Popular Democracy Martin Luther King Jr. showed us that the most radical ideology is the one that is ever-evolving and never satisfied. In recent years some have reframed King as a more radical activist, a contrast to the more intentionally mainstream…

By Flaviana Linares As the holiday season begins and families across the country come together to celebrate, my family will do the same. While we give thanks for being together, there is also worry about whether we’ll continue to share moments like this because some of us are undocumented. …

This Thursday, the Center for Popular Democracy hosted its Popular Democracy Awards 2022 in which we celebrated our 48-affiliate-strong community and honored those who worked hard this year to get us closer to our shared vision of what we wish our world to be: a place where all our communities…

November is Native American Heritage Month; a month when we celebrate Indigenous Americans’ culture and traditions while at the same time uplifting the history of Indigenous peoples in America. Because it falls on the same month as Thanksgiving, it can create a contrast between the story of America that we’ve…

Election Day is behind us now — as we wait for all the votes to be tallied and find out who controls the House and whether control of the Senate will come down to a runoff in Georgia again, we are reminiscing about the great work the Center for Popular…

This week marked the beginning of the Center for Popular Democracy Action’s staff deployment to get out the vote for the upcoming midterm elections. CPDA staff and staff from our affiliate organizations volunteered to spend the last two weeks before election day deployed to key states to help our affiliate…

This Labor Day, Something To Celebrate By JoEllen Chernow For decades, the American worker has had less and less to celebrate on Labor Day. Wages have stayed flat, even as worker productivity has ticked upward. Union rates have plummeted. The rise of the on-demand workforce has forced millions into a…