Votes Not Counted: Mat’s Story
Mat Windsor was denied the right to vote in this election because of a bureaucratic mistake that could not be corrected. Mat did everything right,…
Community Organizing
Featured Entries
Election Collection: the mobile app that defends your vote
Decreased data storage costs, ever-rising mobile device ownership rates, and campaign assemblages’ unprecedented reliance on actual human beings to transmit personalized political messages to voters …
Clean Slate Clinic November 1 in Raleigh
Do you have a criminal record? Has your criminal record held you back from getting a job? There will be a free Clean Slate Clinic…
Voting Rights
Voter Suppression? The Election Collection app can help!
These days it seems like there’s an app for everything. If I can map my daily jog, surely I should be able to use this…
Success In Campaign Against Durham PD Racial Profiling
We are glad to report that the campaign against racial profiling in Durham has begun to result in important and concrete changes to departmental policies.…
Women’s Equality Day Comes to North Carolina, Amid the Moral Week of Action
Reposted from RH Reality Check
by Emma Akpan
August 26, 2014 Organizers thought it was important to incorporate Women’s Equality Day in the Moral Week…
by Emma Akpan
August 26, 2014 Organizers thought it was important to incorporate Women’s Equality Day in the Moral Week…
FADE Coalition Statement on Durham Racial Profiling Report
OFFICIAL FADE COALITION STATEMENT ON THE CITY MANAGER’S REPORT:
We have all witnessed this week in Ferguson, MO, what can happen when a police department…
Rep. David Price to visit SCSJ
David Price to Visit Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ)
Following SCSJ staff attorney Daryl Atkinson’s recent trip to the White House to receive a…
Clean Slate Work: The Necessity of Second Chances for Justice-Involved People
Aaron Bryant is a summer intern at SCSJ, focusing on community organizing for our Criminal Justice Reform program. Aaron wrote the following reflections of his…
NC Voting Rights Rollbacks: The New Selma?
In March of 1965, the Selma-to-Montgomery march began with hopes of creating voting equality. Hundreds of civil rights activists and demonstrators attempted to march from…
DOCUMENTED watch party 6/29!
The United States is home to a vast majority of people who are direct decedents of immigrants or who are immigrants themselves. Our politicians devote…
Engaging young voters
Young Voters
Young people can be a difficult audience to reach and enthuse about political issues. NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation tackled this challenge by…