New Op-ed! Past and Present: How the Montgomery Bus Boycott Created Modern Political Organizing, Built by Black Women

New Op-ed! Past and Present: How the Montgomery Bus Boycott Created Modern Political Organizing, Built by Black Women

In The News | Apr 01, 2026

On the heels of #WomensHistoryMonth, check out this NEW op-ed by Amber-Rose Howard, CURB Executive Director, and Eric Morrison-Smith, Alliance for Boys and Men of Color Executive Director. 

Full op-ed here: bit.ly/3-31dcjournal

This op-ed lifts up the political organizing & infrastructures of care created and led by Black women overtime that have turned moments into movements. Sustaining our movements toward liberation requires us to remember and uplift these institutions.

“The same organizing traditions that sustained Montgomery continue to shape movements challenging mass incarceration today. Recognizing that lineage is not simply an act of historical memory — it is a reminder that the infrastructure for change is always built long before the moment arrives. 

Protecting Black women also means remembering and uplifting the institutions they built, like the Women’s Political Council, because that is how movements endure and how progress is protected.“

Plug in today to anti-imprisonment organizing @curbprisons @allianceforbmoc everywhere on socials 

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