Margaret Prescod is a long time community-based women’s rights, anti-poverty and anti-racist campaigner. Her work is local, national and international and her range includes welfare rights, pay equity, a living wage for all workers including mothers and caregivers, support for grassroots campaigners for justice in Haiti, opposing mass incarceration and solitary confinement, environmental justice and more.

She is the host of “Sojourner Truth” a nationally-syndicated drive time public affairs program on Pacifica Radio stations KPFK in Southern California, WPFW in Washington DC, WBAI in New York City, WRFG in Atlanta and other affiliate stations in Washington State, Oregon and other states. On the airwaves she regularly covers the war against the poor and struggles for basic survival of the most impoverished communities, with a particular focus on women and communities of color.

Margaret was trained in welfare rights and community control of schools in Ocean Hill Brownsville and the civil rights and Black movements. She worked with welfare rights greats Beulah Sanders and Johnnie Tillmon and joined them as delegates to the first Congressionally-mandated conference on women held in Houston, Texas in 1977.

Margaret led the delegations that successfully moved UN resolutions on measuring and valuing unwaged work in the home, on the land and in the community. She works to bridge divides between communities and movements beginning with the needs of those with the least.

She is a founding member of Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike and a co-founder of International Black Women for Wages for Housework. She is a founding member of the Every Mother is a Working Mother Network which coordinates the Los Angeles-based DCFS and the Philadelphia-based DHS Give us Back Our Children. They campaign against child welfare departments removing primarily Black and Brown children and placing them in foster care or up for adoption because their mothers are poor and/or in prison.

She also founded the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders in 1984, whose work is included in the new film “Tales of the Grim Sleeper”. The Black Coalition, whose banner says Black Women’s Live Count, campaigns for law enforcement and elected officials’ accountability in the serial murders of Black women in South Central Los Angeles; their efforts involve community information campaigns, public events, vigils and more. With their persistence, LAPD finally made an arrest and in 2016 the man was convicted of the murder of ten Black women.

An immigrant from Barbados Margaret is the author of “Black Women Bringing it all Back Home” based on her experience as an immigrant. She is the mother of one daughter and lives in inner city Los Angeles.