The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, CA. The stated aim of the center is to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. It is named for Ella Baker, a twentieth century activist and civil rights leader originally from Virginia and North Carolina.
Ella Baker Center works primarily through four initiatives to break cycles of urban violence and reinvest in urban centers. The organization calls for an end to recent decades of disinvestment in cities, excessive and sometimes racist policing, and over-incarceration in order to stop violence and hopelessness in poor urban communities and communities of color. Instead of communities with more prisons and more police, the Ella Baker Center calls for better schools, cleaner environment, and more opportunities for young people and working people.
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