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Ed Whitfield
ewhitfield.fdc@gmail.com
Ed Whitfield is executive director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, as well as a social critic, writer and community activist who works closely with and is on the board of the Beloved Community Center.
Along with other activities and his “day” job as a second-shift electronics technician in a Greensboro factory, he recently played a prominent role in the establishment of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
After graduating as a Presidential Scholar from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in the late 60s, he went on to Cornell University. In 1968, he was among black students who held a successful, nonviolent demonstration to demand a black studies curriculum for the university. A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph shows Ed and other armed students peacefully ending the protest.
Ed lectures on issues of education and racism, has hosted a weekly radio talk show and has written an iconoclastic regular newspaper column on community, education and peace/justice issues. He has written a collection of essays on the 9/11 attacks and the issues of war and justice, as well as a book on school diversity that is currently used by graduate students in the School of Education at N.C. A&T State University. He currently is working on a book re-examining school integration in the light of the current discourse on “re-segregation.” He can also be found on weekends playing jazz flute or blues guitar along with local bands.