With increasing COVID-19 cases around the world, Indigenous communities are at disproportionate risk. In alarm and response, Indigenous leaders are taking action in protecting the most vulnerable. Indigenous youth are taking a lead by organizing initiatives to protect their elders. At Cultural Survival, we recognize the importance of supporting youth leadership through our Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellowship.
By Rodrigo Medina
By Jhonatan Marlon Noé Sotz
By Phillippa Pitts
In 1852, abolitionist and formerly enslaved American Frederick Douglass posed a question to the audience who gathered to hear him celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constant victim… This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
