Community Organizing

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…

End the Immigrant Detention Quota

34 Days to End the 34,000 Immigrant Detention Quota June 9 to July 12 Reposted from Detention Watch Network
The next 34 days are critical…

Reproductive Justice Summit June 18

Reproductive Justice Summit The triangle’s first ever Reproductive Justice Summit is being held this summer in partnership with NARAL Pro-Choice NC, SisterSong, El Pueblo, Inc.,…

2 SCSJ staff named Shriver Racial Justice Fellows

SCSJ’s Anita Earls and Daryl Atkinson named Racial Justice Fellows We are proud to announce that our Executive Director Anita Earls and Staff Attorney Daryl…

Ban the Box Webinar

Ban the Box:  It’s Time for Fair Hiring in the South  “Ban the box” delays arrest and/or conviction inquiries in the hiring process to offer…

Community supports Durham FADE recommendations

Yesterday, nine community organizations partnered with the Durham FADE Coalition and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice to prioritize five of the more than 30…

Community says "enough" to Durham racial profiling

The community has had enough. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Durham FADE (Fostering Alternative Drug Enforcement) partnered with community organizations to present and…

First voter engagement convening successful

Ignited by the June 2013 US Supreme Court decision invalidating Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and subsequently ratified state-based voter suppression laws, The…

Clean Slate Success in Durham

What is Clean Slate work and why is it important?
Involvement in the criminal justice system has negative side effects beyond a court case and…

Anti-Shackling: Reproductive Rights Behind Bars

As prison abolitionists work towards a world without prisons, public health practitioners and prison reformers must work alongside them to expose and mitigate the severe…

End Mass Incarceration Week

From April 5-13, 2014, SCSJ will be honoring End Mass Incarceration Week.
What is End Mass Incarceration Week? It is a week set aside to…

How Can We Manifest Hope into Freedom?

The American Prospect Longform recently published an article entitled, Is There Hope for the Survivors of the War on Drugs? by Senior Writer Monica Potts. …