“Racial oppression and poverty work against the common good and our society as a whole. If we don’t fix these problems, we will leave a weakened state and nation for the next generations. Inaction now will exacerbate the social and economic challenges that are being driven by the widening racial wealth gap.”
— Nancy Flake Johnson, President of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta.
During the civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a system of shared rides for activists in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet. Morning Edition's Leah Fleming interviews members Freddie Greene Biddle and Judy Richardson to talk about how the fleet was organized right out of SNCC's Atlanta headquarters.
The Grammy-winning singer is an artist-in-residence at Georgia State University's Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) in Atlanta. She spoke about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s influence on her life and songwriting.
