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Once you realize that Black Lives Matter, what comes next? Across the nation and beyond leaders are finding themselves in the awkward position of needing to address systemic inequities, but they are devoid of the tools or even the language to reckon with our deep history of racial violence and exclusion.
Social justice advocates already are questioning whether this is a movement or a moment; they are worried that that real change will remain illusory.
We can’t let that happen.Continue reading We can’t change the South’s past, but let’s make all Southerners part of its future: Op-ed by John Simpkins →

Nine North Carolina organizations focused on education, disability rights, activism, Latino issues, and rural communities were selected to learn more and advance their work at the intersection of race, educational equity, and learning differences through participation in “Learning for Equity: A Network for Solutions,” a learning and action network being created by MDC and Oak Foundation.Continue reading Nine North Carolina organizations selected to address the intersection between race, educational equity, and learning differences →

This is a time of profound loss of life in the wake of COVID-19 and deep mourning for George Floyd, Ahmaud Aubery, and victims of racial violence throughout America. Issues of equity on which MDC has toiled for more than 50 years have been laid bare and intensified. The ground we thought we had gained seems to be vanishing under our feet.Continue reading We stand with all Southerners and Americans →

MDC mourns the passing of Andrea Harris, a pioneer born into the Civil Rights Movement who founded the Institute of Minority Economic Development in Durham and helped thousands of women and people of color across North Carolina build their own businesses. She was 72.Continue reading MDC mourns the passing of Andrea Harris →

John L.S. Simpkins, a constitutional law scholar and former Obama Administration counsel who has played a leadership role in advancing an equity agenda for women and people of color in the South, was selected by the MDC Board to be the organization’s next president. He succeeds David L. Dodson, who is retiring June 30 after 21 years as President.Continue reading South Carolinian John L.S. Simpkins selected new president of MDC →

Dodson was cited for his work to reform inequitable education and workforce systems across the South.Continue reading MDC President David Dodson honored by Durham, N.C., chamber →

The cohort includes community foundations and health-conversion foundations from Alabama, Kentucky and North Carolina and South Carolina.Continue reading Southern foundations convene for inaugural Passing Gear Philanthropy Institute →

The two speak with MDC News about their work, their own experiences with child care and why informal care is such an important piece of the child care puzzle.Continue reading Q&A with Cate Elander and Trina Stephens, MDC Great Expectations program managers →

Following the announcement last year of the retirement of  David Dodson after 32 years at MDC, the last 20 as president, the MDC Board of Directors retained BoardWalk Consulting to conduct the search for a replacement. BoardWalk Consulting has begun the search and created a brief Leadership Profile to describe the attributes of MDC’s nextContinue reading ‘MDC seeks a visionary leader skillful in leading systemic change and committed to equity for all marginalized people in the South’ →

MDC will accept letters of interest through Dec. 4, 2019, at 5 p.m. for organizations interested in participating in the grant-funded network.  The Oak Foundation has engaged MDC to create a learning and action network of organizations in North Carolina that are working at the intersection of equity and learning differences. The result is “LearningContinue reading MDC and Oak Foundation seek NC groups working on equity and learning differences →