Katie Gilbert

Katie Gilbert lives in Chicago. She has written for Al Jazeera America, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and others.

The Socialist Experiment: A New-Society Vision in Jackson, Mississippi

“The reason I started off with that little prelude,” he told the Neighborhood Funders Group Conference attendees, “is that I wanted to say that what has not changed is the vision of that new society, that new way of thinking. That new way of engineering and governing a society, where everyone would be treated with dignity. Where there would be no class, no gender, or color discrimination. Even though it didn’t happen in that little community which we called El Malik, now it’s about to happen in Jackson, Mississippi. And would you believe it?”

September 28, 2017