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2022: 3/31 Breaking Intergenerational Barriers While Dismantling Systemic Racism in NJ

April 1, 2022

3/31 Breaking Intergenerational Barriers While Dismantling Systemic Racism in NJ

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Dismantling NJ’s pervasive systemic racism is a fight that requires activists of all ages, skill sets, passions, vigor, and ideas. Yet even within the work of social justice, the challenges of building and sustaining an intergenerational movement can stifle progress. It is time to meet THIS multi-faceted, social justice movement of THIS moment with a multi-generational, multitude of activists… A multitude that embraces the voices of the future.

Crystal D. Charley-Sibley, is a reproductive justice and civil rights activist and founder of Melanin and Motherhood.

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