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Stokes county community members celebrate after the Stokes County Planning Board voted to recommend a siz-month moratorium on data center development.

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Environmental Justice

Community Celebrates as Stokes County Planning Board Recommends 6-Month Data Center Moratorium

DANBURY, N.C. (July 10, 2026) — Last night, after a moving tribute to the region’s people, rural character, and cultural history, the Stokes County Planning Board voted 6-1 to recommend a six-month […]

Voting Rights Groups Will Appeal Ruling on DeSantis Partisan Map

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Voting Rights

Common Cause, et al v. Ron Desantis, et al.

Primer on Closed Landfills in North Carolina

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Environmental Justice

Primer on Closed Landfills in North Carolina

Our Work

We are committed to protecting and advancing social justice in the South through legal advocacy, research, and communications.

Focus Areas

Justice System Reform

Voting Rights

Environmental Justice

Recent News

SCOTUS Building up close

Voting Rights

Statement: Southern Communities Reassert Values of Equity, Inclusion in Our Democracy

"I voted! did you?" sign at a polling place

Voting Rights

NC Counties Still Consider Cuts to Early Voting Following Pressure from Raleigh

Five people stand together outside a courthouse holding a sign that reads 'Free Savanna Batten — Free the Prairieland Defendants' with a photo of Savanna Batten and the website PrairielandDefendants.com.

Justice System Reform

50 Years for a Protest and a Book Club. Savanna Batten is Appealing

A map of Columbus County, North Carolina showing five early voting sites, with the Fair Bluff Fire Department and Ransom Event Center marked in red as proposed for closure, located approximately 12 and 30 miles from the Board of Elections respectively.

Voting Rights

Voters Raise Red Flags as Columbus County Looks to Slash Early Voting Sites

Our Cases

We go to court across the South, covering Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Amanda Wallace

Justice System Reform

Durham County v. Amanda Wallace

Southern Coalition for Social Justice represented Ms. Amanda Wallace during a day-long hearing in Durham County District Court.

Justice System Reform

Family Policing in Person County

SCSJ is supporting community members in Person County, North Carolina, who are fighting for accountability, transparency, and the rights of families to stay together.

Inside of a data center server room

Environmental Justice

The Hairston Clan, et al. v. Stokes County

Community groups and Walnut Cove, NC, residents are challenging the decision of their County Board of Commissioners to rezone approximately 1,845 acres of residential-agricultural land on the Dan River to heavy industrial use.

The South got something to say.

We go wherever the fight takes us to make sure Black, Brown, and low-income people across the South are heard in the halls of power. 

NCCU students and faculty celebrate with SCSJ attorneys