David Dennis knows a little something about resistance. He was one of the original Freedom Riders in the early 1960s and was deputy director of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, in which more than a thousand college students traveled to Mississippi to register Black voters and volunteer in Freedom Schools.
Lottie L. Joiner
Lottie L. Joiner, assistant managing editor at Verite, is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering issues that impact underserved and marginalized communities. She is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis Magazine, the official publication of the NAACP. During her tenure at The Crisis, the quarterly journal won several national awards for its coverage of social justice issues, Black history, African American art and culture.
