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Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Our work has carried Southern Echo staff into 12 additional states across the south and southwest.

Southern Echo's underlying goal is to empower local communities through effective community organizing work, in order to create a process through which community people can build the broad-based organizations necessary to hold the political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

“10/08/2009 to 10/09/2009″ - Census & Redistricting Training with Right to the City – On October 7-8 2009, Southern Echo will hold a census and redistricting training with Right to the City NYC organizations in New York City, New York.

“10/16/2009″ - MS Dept of Education hearing on Report Card – 

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The South X Southwest Experiment

The South X Southwest Experiment is an intergenerational partnership of Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable with the Southwest Workers Union, San Antonio, TX and the South West Organizing Project, Albuquerque, NM.

Working together through the South X Southwest Experiment we seek to bring Black, Brown and Native American communities together across traditional race, political and geographic barriers to share their state and community histories, personal stories, strategic analysis and current programs of work.

Together we are building a common ground on which activists from across Mississippi, Texas and New Mexico can pool their strengths and resources to impact the formation and implementation of public policy on fundamental issues of joint concern.