Partnership for Southern Equity

Partnership for Southern Equity Together we can create a region of balanced growth and opportunity. Together we can build a stronger community where we can all prosper!

Founded in 2009, PSE connects diverse individuals and organizations that advance racial equity and shared prosperity throughout metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. Partnership for Southern Equity – a broad dynamic network of organizations and individuals committed to promoting equitable development and shared prosperity in the Atlanta metropolitan region. The Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) envisions a new metropolitan Atlanta region in which all people can prosper and thrive because they have access to economic, civic, and social opportunities. Together we can create a region where good schools, jobs and qualified labor can be found everywhere. Together we can create a region where all communities are safe and have access to diverse housing options, healthy food and stable infrastructures.

Zoning decides what can be built on your block, how much it costs, and who gets to stay.Most of those decisions happen i...
10/14/2026

Zoning decides what can be built on your block, how much it costs, and who gets to stay.

Most of those decisions happen in meetings few residents ever hear about. This Saturday, NPU-V neighbors get to look at the numbers themselves.

The Equitable Zoning Reform Coalition is hosting NPU-V By The Numbers, a working session on what the community actually needs in housing, and how zoning is helping or getting in the way.

📅 Saturday, October 17
⏰ 10 AM – 1 PM
📍 The Educational Center @ Emmaus House, 1010 Crew St SW

Food and childcare are provided. Bring your questions, your neighbors, and what you know about your street.

PSE is proud to stand with Georgia ACT, Housing Justice League, Kindred Futures, Urban Oasis, Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation, and coalition partners on this.

Register at the link in bio or scan the QR code on the flyer.

188,667 Georgians didn’t wait. 🗣️That’s how many of us voted in person on the first day of early voting. It’s a new reco...
10/14/2026

188,667 Georgians didn’t wait. 🗣️

That’s how many of us voted in person on the first day of early voting. It’s a new record for a midterm, and more than 53,000 above day one in 2022.

The ballot is where we decide who makes the calls on our energy bills, our neighborhoods, our schools, and our health. Every one of those 188,667 people made sure those calls get made with us, not for us.

Haven’t voted yet? Your turn.

📍 Early voting runs through Fri., Oct. 30
📍 Election Day is Tue., Nov. 3
📍 Find your site and sample ballot at mvp.sos.ga.gov

Then bring your 5 with you. 🧡

The work we do is rooted in community, and the relationships we build along the way matter just as much as the work itse...
10/13/2026

The work we do is rooted in community, and the relationships we build along the way matter just as much as the work itself.

At PSE, we believe meaningful change happens when people show up for one another, invest in collective success, and remain committed to building a more equitable future together.

Grateful for the people who make this work possible and remind us that none of us does it alone.

You don't have to wait for a groundbreaking to find out a data center is coming. The signs are usually public if you kno...
10/12/2026

You don't have to wait for a groundbreaking to find out a data center is coming. The signs are usually public if you know where to look.

Start with your city council and zoning agendas. Rezoning requests for "light industrial" or mixed-use can be the first sign of a large project, even when the company behind it isn't named yet.

Check your county records for land sales and option agreements. Big parcels changing hands, or being held under option, can show where a developer is lining up a site.

Then watch the Public Service Commission. When a utility files for new large power loads, it's planning for something big.

None of this takes a law degree. It takes knowing where to look and showing up while decisions are still open. At Plugged In, we'll walk through how to track these steps in your own community and what to do once you find something.

Plugged In
Tuesday, October 20 · 6–8 PM EDT
Register now: https://airtable.com/app6Svw2V6kslX81R/pag9zvVr6iPXqBbgs/form
(Also linked in our bio.)

Data centers don't just show up. By the time a community hears about one, the utility has usually been planning for it f...
10/09/2026

Data centers don't just show up. By the time a community hears about one, the utility has usually been planning for it for months.

One of the earliest signs is a large load request filed with the Public Service Commission. When a single customer asks for something like 500 megawatts, enough to power a small city, that's worth paying attention to. Those filings are public, and they tell you what's coming before the ribbon cutting does.

At Plugged In, we'll talk about where to look, what to ask, and how Georgians can show up while decisions are still being made.

Plugged In
Tuesday, October 20 · 6–8 PM EDT
Register: https://airtable.com/app6Svw2V6kslX81R/pag9zvVr6iPXqBbgs/form
(Also linked in our bio.)

Georgia's place in the civil rights movement is often told as a backdrop. It was a base of operations.In 1960, students ...
10/08/2026

Georgia's place in the civil rights movement is often told as a backdrop. It was a base of operations.

In 1960, students from the Atlanta University Center organized sit-ins and published "An Appeal for Human Rights," demanding an end to segregation in the city. In 1961, Albany became home to one of the first mass movements to take on segregation across an entire community, with churches, students and working people marching together. SNCC organizers went into Southwest Georgia's rural counties to register Black voters, often at real risk to their lives. And SNCC ran it all from its headquarters in Atlanta.

None of it happened by accident. It was organized, meeting by meeting and door by door.

That work didn't end. The same fights over voting, fair representation and economic opportunity are still being organized in Georgia today, and we're proud to be part of carrying it forward.

What’s happening across the South? A lot.This month’s newsletter is packed with what’s shaping the work ahead — from ear...
10/08/2026

What’s happening across the South? A lot.

This month’s newsletter is packed with what’s shaping the work ahead — from early voting starting October 13, to our upcoming Plugged In convening, to revisiting our Growing the Future Just Opportunity report as it turns 10.

Swipe through for a look at what’s inside, then make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next one.

📩 Get the latest from PSE in your inbox. Subscribe through the link in our bio.

By the time a child walks into kindergarten, a lot has already been decided for them.Whether there's a library within wa...
10/07/2026

By the time a child walks into kindergarten, a lot has already been decided for them.

Whether there's a library within walking distance. Whether there are books at home. Whether their parents work hours that leave time for bedtime stories. Whether they had access to quality pre-K, or a pediatrician who screened for speech delays, or a stable place to live. None of that is about how smart a kid is or how hard their teachers work. It's about where they live.

When we talk about reading scores, we tend to look only at schools. But literacy gaps are shaped by housing, income, health care and public investment long before a child sits at a desk. If we want every child in Georgia reading on grade level, the solutions have to reach those neighborhoods too.

Every kid deserves a fair start, no matter their zip code.

Today, we remember Fannie Lou Hamer, born October 6, 1917.A sharecropper, organizer, and founder of Freedom Farm, Hamer ...
10/07/2026

Today, we remember Fannie Lou Hamer, born October 6, 1917.

A sharecropper, organizer, and founder of Freedom Farm, Hamer understood that freedom was never just about the right to vote. It was also about having land, food, safety, dignity, and the resources to build a life on your own terms.

Her words still call us forward: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

The work continues.

The people who live next to a proposed data center know things no developer's slide deck will tell you. Which roads alre...
10/06/2026

The people who live next to a proposed data center know things no developer's slide deck will tell you. Which roads already flood. Where the power goes out first. What the water bill looked like before and after the last big project came through.

Too often, residents find out about these deals after the land is sold and the tax breaks are approved. By then, the only choice left is to react. We think the process should work the other way around: communities at the table early, with real information and a real say in what gets built and on what terms.

That's where our data center playbook starts, and it's what we'll dig into at Plugged In. Come learn what questions to ask, where decisions actually get made, and how to make sure your community's voice counts before the deal is done.

Plugged In
Tuesday, October 20 · 6–8 PM EDT
Save your spot: https://airtable.com/app6Svw2V6kslX81R/pag9zvVr6iPXqBbgs/form
(Also linked in our bio.)

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