Malik Rahim
Malik Rahim (born Donald Guyton) was raised in New Orleans' Algiers
neighborhood. He has spent many years studying and organizing around
housing and prison issues. He was a founding member of the Black
Panthers' Louisiana Chapter, the anti-death penalty campaign Pilgrimage
for Life (with Sister Helen Prejean and others) and the successful
National Coalition to Free the Angola Three. Malik was also a founder
and operator of Algiers Development Center and Invest Transitional
Housing, an ex-offenders program which housed over 1,000 men, women and
children. He is co-founder and outreach organizer of Housing is a Human
Right, an affordable housing non-profit organization in San
Francisco.
