This column was written by Peter Dreier. Before Karen Bass was elected Speaker of the California Assembly--the second-most-powerful job in the nation's largest state, with over 36 million people--she ...

Eva Davis, the beloved community organizer, was central to an Atlanta artist’s work on a high-rise that was once part of the ...

In her fiery Republican convention speech this summer, Gov. Sarah Palin attacked Sen. Barack Obama by belittling his experience as a community organizer. She compared working as a small-town mayor to ...

Ask not what you can do for your country, said Errol Louis in the New York Daily News, unless you want Republicans making fun of you. In an ugly display of ignorance last week, speaker after speaker ...

It is now a commonly held belief that funding organizing work is the most effective way to bring about real, effective social change. But what is the history behind that belief? How have full-time ...

In Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, he rebuked "those who are preparing to divide us," and famously declared, "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; ...

When Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin took the stage at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, she took some pretty hard, but familiar, jabs at Barack Obama, for instance, ...

The biggest punch line so far at this Republican convention in St. Paul: “community organizer.” Why did these two words suddenly become the zinger of the night at the convention? The credit or blame ...

Black children are suffering in public schools, and the effects of institutional racism are paralyzing potential. Community organizer Jacqueline Bridgeforth-Williams, is all too familiar with the ...

Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A Tucson community organizer is asking city leaders to support or partially sponsor a city-sanctioned encampment. Armed with a stack of visual guides and possible programming ...

Where's the media on President Obama's firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General, Gerald Walpin? It has not been once mentioned on the evening news programs, in The New York Times, in The Washington Post ...