Community Conversations

Building Equitable, Accountable, and Community-Governed Investment Why This Matters This framework redefines how corporate investment can directly support long-term community wealth building and shared governance in historically disinvested communities. “Corporations, anchor institutions, and public entities generate substantial revenue while operating in or benefiting from neighborhoods that continue to experience chronic unemployment, housing instability, limited access to

Community Manifesto & Social Contract Our Truth!! From the founding of this nation, democracy has systematically excluded Black people and other marginalized communities. Slavery, Jim Crow, racial terror, mass incarceration, and state-sanctioned violence were not exceptions, they were built into governing systems. Every gain toward freedom has been won through struggle, yet those gains are repeatedly weakened, rolled back, or dismantled by institutions unwilling to confront s

The Community Empowerment Association (CEA) remains a mission-driven, social justice–centered organization. Through government shutdowns, a global pandemic, staffing transitions, and limited funding amid growing community needs, our commitment to serve has never wavered. For more than 30 years, CEA has stood as a Black-led organization rooted in self-help and self-determination. While organizations like ours do not always fit traditional narratives, we have remained firm on a

What is education today, if it does not serve our underserved Black students? From Brown v. Board of Education to the post-Reconstruction era , our ancestors, many of them newly freed, built Freedom and Liberation Schools to teach truth, culture, and survival. They understood that education was not just about reading and arithmetic; it was about reclaiming identity and resisting erasure. Today, we face a new enemy, the Education Industrial Complex , systems controlled by c

Dr Joy DeGruy In every community, there are people who help us see more clearly, who give us the language and tools to understand what...

Structural racism is embedded in systems through policies, protocols, and institutional missions. These systems are controlled and...

A united community standing together in purpose, power, and possibility. THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF BLACK POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC...

Community Conversation By Fred Logan A historical view of Pittsburgh’s 13th Ward According to the late Linn Washington, approximately 80%...

March Community Conversation Black voices united to address systemic structural barriers that marginalize the Black community. Key issues...

CEA, in collaboration with Councilmember Khari Mosley’s office and The People, recently hosted its first Community Conversation to...

Honoring Our History: Join the Black Male Healing Circle In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we reflected on his profound legacy...