Launched in 2013 by Founder Vanesia R. Johnson, small business owner and community advocate, Citizens Advocating for Social Equity (C.A.S.E.) in partnership with the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities (CEDD) worked collaboratively to confront social systems of government about their negative outcome of data that is affecting vulnerable people. In 2014 community advocate, Leesa Oliver, and women business owners, Keciana Enaohwo, Lynette Reddix, and in 2015 Cynthia Allen joined the leadership team of C.A.S.E. to address the poor performance of the social systems of government, as social injustice issues against vulnerable people is in the fore' front.

In a July 2015 e-newsletter when NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman, Rosyln Brock, poetically described the 3 radical words, “We The People,” she without knowing embodied the spirit, heart and soul of C.A.S.E. in her fortifying words. She stated, “We—the descendants of indigenous nations; descendants of the enslaved; descendants of immigrants; those born with privilege and those born into poverty—are the people. And as the people, we will not rest until all of us secure the justice and liberty that the Constitution promised us.”

C.A.S.E. brings to life these 3 words and their meaning for our nation’s most vulnerable. CASE is a social welfare organization comprised of people from all walks of life that share the common interest of social justice, neighborly love, and community responsibility to its citizens. It endeavors to increase community awareness, institutional accountability, and provoke effective government response toissues affecting vulnerable citizens. Children, the elderly, minorities, the homeless, and the suffering are powerless to the failings and shortcomings of social systems of government. They had no voice in the political landscape until now. C.A.S.E. focuses on holding social systems of government accountable to their alarming impact and disproportionate and disparate outcomes negatively affecting vulnerable people. Progress and prosperity for all people are needed to make this country great. C.A.S.E.believes “We the People” must prevail in our pursuit of liberty. Social systems such as public education, children’s welfare, juvenile justice, criminal justice, mental health /health care, and housing are designed to respond to the needs of our nation’s most vulnerable. In our pursuit of liberty, we must fight for the lives of everyone including our nation’s most vulnerable. Their lives matter, too! Go to www.caseonthemove.org/donate to make a financial contribution today!

Special thanks goes out to Ms. Carolyn D. Baker: Publisher of Jamsource / Runway Fashion Source Magazine for sharing this article.