Honoring and celebrating Maurice Mitchell, a community organizer, social movement strategist, and national leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and the National Director of the Working Families Party, on the occasion of his visit to Philadelphia.

Honoring and celebrating Maurice Mitchell, a community organizer, social movement strategist, and national leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and the National Director of the Working Families Party, on the occasion of his visit to Philadelphia. WHEREAS, Maurice Mitchell, lovingly known as “Moe,” is a community organizer and social movement strategist who has worked toward racial, social, and economic justice throughout his career. He is a nationally renowned leader in the Movement for Black Lives and serves as National Director of the Working Families Party; and WHEREAS, Maurice’s life was thrown into chaos when his home in Long Island, New York was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, leaving him to live in hotel rooms for months. A year and a half later, Mike Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Maurice moved to Ferguson to help support community organizing there, and set up strategic support for the people in the Movement for Black Lives across the country; and WHEREAS, During the Movement for Black Lives Convention in Cleveland in 2015, Maurice played a key role bringing activists from across the country for the first Movement for Black Lives convening in response to ongoing police brutality against Black communities; and WHEREAS, In 2018, Maurice became the National Director of the Working Families Party, an ascending community organization. The group works across the country and has deep roots in Philadelphia. Maurice’s guidance ensured that growth was steere…