Building Black Futures with Kamau Franklin
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sculpting our future in the present is the only way we'll gain the power we need to make the idea of Black liberation a reality. Community Movement Builders (CMB) is doing that work. CMB is a Black-run group creating sustainable and self-determining communities. The organization's executive director, Kamau Franklin, sits with us to break down how CMB organizes and mobilizes to make Black economic and political freedom possible. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, |
| 0:02.8 | up fam? This is Jay from Push Black. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to the New Year. |
| 0:06.4 | I know a lot of y'all are tired after a year like 2020. |
| 0:10.4 | So today on Black History Year, I'm bringing you a conversation to reinvigorate your spirit and get us moving in the right direction. |
| 0:17.5 | A conversation that will bring us closer to building the future we imagine. |
| 0:22.0 | Where Black Liberation is a reality, not a theory or a dream, a reality. |
| 0:27.6 | To help us navigate this, we're talking to a brother whose collective has been sculpting the future in our present. |
| 0:37.3 | With over 30 years of organizing and community building experience, Kamal Franklin is the executive director of the organization |
| 0:44.8 | Community Movement Builders. This Black Run group creates sustainable and |
| 0:50.4 | self-determining communities. They do this by centering cooperative |
| 0:54.2 | economic progress and collective community organizing and they do it really well. |
| 1:00.9 | Today he's going to break down the tangible ways his organization is making possible black economic and political freedom and how you too can mobilize and organize to make the dream of true liberation a reality. My name is Camal Franklin. I am the executive director of an organization called |
| 1:26.6 | Community Movement Builders. We consider ourselves a sort of a place-based |
| 1:29.8 | organization so here in Atlanta we have a community house in Southwest Atlanta, one of the last intact black working class and poor neighborhoods that hasn't been impacted by gentrification. We have six chapters, Dallas, Detroit, Memphis, San Diego, and New Orleans or other |
| 1:46.8 | chapters. I'm located here in Atlanta, Georgia. I've been an organizer for over 30 |
| 1:51.5 | years and I used to be a practicing attorney. |
| 1:53.7 | Have you always organized in Atlanta or elsewhere? |
| 1:58.0 | No, originally I'm from Brooklyn. So Brooklyn is where I started organizing, where I got politicized, and I did a lot of street |
| 2:06.6 | organizing, grassroots stuff, and it's still my favorite type of organizing to do. |
| 2:10.9 | It's still my favorite type of thing to do is to meet people to figure out programs and ways to get people involved in |
| 2:17.6 | their community to do political education. |
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