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A Look Back: Our COVID-19 Emergency Grants

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In the Fall of 2020 as a global pandemic raged the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice responded. We realized early on that his pandemic would only worsen already existing racial and economic injustices. People in our community needed help. We responded by...

Hope, but Demand Justice

Congratulations to Pat Hynes and her new book Hope, but Demand Justice. Pat is a longtime activist and director of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice (MNF grantee) "As this past Earth Day was observed, it is poignant to read of the myriad assaults on the...

Reading Frederick Douglass Together, July 3, 2022

A Public Reading of Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Address Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 11 am On the Grounds of Historic Northampton"Reading Frederick Douglass Together brings people together to read aloud Frederick Douglass’s speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth...

Historical Marker to Commemorate Greeensboro Massacre

On this day we remember that on May 24, 2015 a N.C. Highway Historical Marker was dedicated to commemorate the Greensboro Massacre. The marker can be found at the intersection of McConnell Road and Willow Road in Greensboro. On November 3, 1979 Community Workers Party...

Franklin County Standout for Racial Justice, May 25, 2022

Local groups plan Franklin County Standout for Racial Justice on 2nd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd Event: Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 4:30-5:30 pm “Black victims of police violence are not new, and George Floyd’s death has been followed by too many others....