Mon 30 April 2005
New Democracy Coalition Host National Conference on the Voting Rights Act

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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

Other Programs

The Freed People Project

The Freed People Project is an after school partnership that engages youth in character and community-building through the use and study of history. 

The objective of the program is to provide high school aged youth with an opportunity to build leadership and critical analysis skills through the study of recent history and social movements. Using dialogic and socratic methods of investigation and problem-solving, youth focus on freedom as a necessary political and social goal in construction and maintenance of local communities, nationally and across the globe. 

The project engages a small number of intellectually curious and socially conscious youth to study, discuss and debate aspects of local and national American history for the purposes of building their capacity to understand democracy and engage in social justice activities.  High schools students will engage the meaning of concepts such as justice, democracy, freedom, community development and civic participation.

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The New Commonwealth Civic Forum

The New Commonwealth Civic Forum is a civic literacy initiative established to promote the discussion and debate of ideas related to the promotion of public life.

Sponsored in collaboration with boston university and local and national non-profit organizations, the nccf is invested in the belief that democratic life is diminished without public reflection on public policy, the administration of government and the impact of race, poverty and electoral politics.

National and local figures are invited to discussion issues of contemporary relevant.

New Democracy Service Awards

The New Democracy Service Awards recognizes individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to civic life through the personal, professional or volunteer efforts.

Created to highlight the public good produced by local, national and global citizens, the award recognizes the recipient's humanitarian spirit, their commitment to justice for the poor and vulnerable and their belief in the purposeful, positive and ever-expanding social possibility.

Past recipients of the new democracy service award include Congressman John Lewis, Ambassador Andrew J. Young, Marian Heard, Reverends C.T. Vivian and William Sinkford, and Senator Richard Moore.

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 The Democracy Museum

Imagine a place where local and global social and political history Converges to engage our civic imagination.  Imagine a place where the defining moments of our democracy is viewed and discussed and debated.  And imagine a place where global citizenship becomes a reality through a visual and archival portal available throughout the world. And them imagined it viewed in the convenience of the home, at school or in the workplace.  It is a place Where the phenomenon of history comes to life in movement and voice and in the rush of human events.  This place is the democracy museum…In development.