Jude-Laure Denis is a Haitian-American woman of Catholic and Jewish heritage, with a passion for justice for all people.  Leaving behind a successful career in corporate event management for Merrill Lynch to become a community organizer on the 2008 Obama campaign, she has been working diligently to create spaces for both individual and community transformation ever since.

These remarks by Jude-Laure Denis, formerly the executive director of POWER Northeast, were shared at a rally on Sunday, August 13th, 2017 in response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, VA on Friday and Saturday, August 11th and 12th, 2017. Jude provides a powerful statement about confronting white supremacy in our communities and offers a vision for how to begin to work for healing and justice. - Lucy

A new mural in Oakland shows how young people are using art and solidarity to challenge racism.

Linda Sanchez is the director of AFSC's 67 Sueños program in San Francisco. 

On Saturday Aug. 12, white nationalists—armed with Nazi and confederate flags, torches, shields, and weapons—converged in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a “Unite the Right” rally. They were met with hundreds of anti-racist and anti-fascist protestors. A white supremacist drove his car into the protests, killing one person and injuring dozens.

The Trump administration is considering ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—a move that would put nearly 800,000 young immigrants under immediate threat of deportation. Communities across the country are rallying to save the program. Here's what we're reading to learn more.

Kenya held an important election on Aug. 8, and the results are expected to be announced today.

More than a year ago, I was in Nairobi, a city teeming with industriousness and life, meeting with our regional team. They were strategizing then about how to support our network of youth and civil society leaders in mobilizing to prevent election violence.

As Kenya prepares for next week's election, AFSC is helping young people call for peaceful elections.

Kenya has had a history of electoral and political violence, but the events that followed the 2007 election were especially horrific. More than 1,300 people were killed, and over 600,000 were displaced in the violence that followed the controversial election and ballot counting process. A country that was a strong and stable democracy in East Africa appeared to be on the precipice of a continued civil conflict. 

In the early hours of the morning, the Senate narrowly defeated the Health Care Freedom Act, which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act and potentially stripped health insurance from 16 million people. The bill was defeated after months of courageous protests in Washington, DC and across the country. Here’s what we’re reading to learn more.