The Communiversity
Political Education. Cultural Preservation. Community Power.
The Communiversity is a Black worker–centered educational institution dedicated to building organizing power through political education, storytelling, and cultural preservation. Rooted in the U.S. South and connected globally, we transform lived experience into collective strategy.
What We Do
- Preserve Black labor and organizing history
- Educate workers, youth, and community leaders
- Produce media that advances liberation narratives
- Build sustainable infrastructure for movement work
Workers Education & Leadership
DON'T quit, ORGANIZE
Workers’ gatherings & webinars by Communiversity help workers see their own history as education & turn frustration into collective action. Through these participatory learning spaces, workers learn how to understand workplace power structures, know their labor rights, build stronger relationships with coworkers, and develop practical organizing strategies. They build a culture of resistance that strengthens both the labor and Black liberation movements in the U.S. South. strategies.
Webinar - General Strike
Fall 2026
CARRYING ON THE TRADITION: LESSONS FROM QUEEN MOTHER MOORE TO ASSATA SHAKUR
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Four Legs of The Communiversity Stool
THE ABNER BERRY FREEDOM LIBRARY & READING ROOM | POPULAR EDUCATION - THE BLACK WORKERS FOR JUSTICE | SALADIN MUHAMMAD ARCHIVES DIGITAL MEDIA
In many African societies education and leadership training is integral to society, woven in. Additionally, the African Stool symbolizes an important and varying role in many societies, ranging from that of sacred, authoritative to cultural identity and craftsmanship.
The Communiversity interprets the African Stool as symbolic of the power of the Black working class, with each key program as one of four legs of the stool: Workers Education, Archives, Library and Digital Media. Together, they reflect The Communiversity’s mission of Workers Education and Leadership Development of the Black Working Class. We view the Black working class as the foundation, anchoring, and strength – The Seat – of our liberation movement and people, and the working class as a whole.
Our workers’ popular education programs, the archives, and the library serve to bring workers’ own history, confidence, and understanding of power and leadership back to them.
Black Women Workers | Webinar Series
Popular Education
Popular education is at the heart of the Communiversity. Rooted in the traditions of worker schools, freedom schools, and community study groups, our popular education programs connect lived experience with political education. Participants share history, economics, organizing strategy, and culture in ways that build collective understanding and leadership. Understanding that people learn in all different kinds of ways, we use webinars, field trips, reading circles, oral history, videos, community dialogues, events and more. We create spaces where workers, organizers, and our communities can deepen a culture of resistance: deepen analysis, sharpen strategy, and strengthen the labor movements & the Black liberation in the South.
ABNER Berry Freedom Library & Reading Room
Library
The Abner Berry Freedom Library & Reading Room serves as a community space dedicated to study, reflection, and political learning. The library houses books, publications, and research materials focused on Black and global liberation movements, labor struggles, international solidarity, political theory, political economy, and the history of organizing in the US South, across the African diaspora and globally. More than a collection of books, the reading room is a place where people come together to study movement history, host reading groups, and engage in collective learning.
Preservation
Archives
Preserving the history of workers’ struggles on the job and in their communities is essential to building the future. The Communiversity maintains archives that document organizing efforts, political education traditions, and the experiences of Black workers and their communities primarily from Eastern North Carolina, but throughout the U.S. South. These archives include materials such as oral histories, organizing documents, photographs, publications, and campaign records. By preserving these materials, we ensure that the knowledge and lessons of past struggles remain available to inform today’s – and tomorrow’s generation of workers as organizers.
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Digital Media
Digital media allows the Communiversity to extend the reach of movement education beyond physical space. Through podcasts, videos, digital storytelling, and online learning platforms, we document movement history, share political education resources, and connect organizers across communities and generations. Digital media also helps amplify voices from the South and connect local struggles to national and international conversations about justice, labor, and liberation.
Partners
