Thu 8 May 2008
On Being Mae Jemison

Renew the Voting Rights Act Project:

The Voting Rights Act is said, by many, to be the greatest of the Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s. You can read more

People

New Democracy Coalition was founded by Kevin C. Peterson in Boston, Massachusetts in 2001. Kevin Peterson is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Collaborative Leadership at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He is also a researcher at the William Monroe Trotter Institute in Boston. Mr. Peterson has held a fellowship at M.I.T. in the Urban Studies Department. He has published journal articles, book reviews and opinion editorials on the subject of civic engagement. He has appeared on national programs such as Nightline, National Public Radio and in the New York Times, The Boston Globe and Time Magazine in articles related to politics.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Charles E. Walker, Esq., Chairman
Dr. Sherry Penney
Charlotte Golar Richie
Dr. Richard O'Bryant
John Barros
William Rodrigues
Rev. Richard Richardson
Louis Elisa
Charlie Rose
Randall Davis
Monalisa Smith
Susan Tracy
Julie Schecter

"Our goal in the area of renewing democracy is simple: We follow in an American tradition that is as ambitious as our founding fathers were, as courageous as the abolitionists and the women suffragist were, and as spiritually determined as the civil rights workers were. Join Us."

Charles E. Walker, Jr., Esq., Founding Chairman