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Join the Durham Community in Responding to Concerns About Durham Police Activity and the Death of Jesús Huerta

Press Conference
Friday, January 10, 2014 3:00 p.m. Durham City Hall 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham, NC 27701 Please join us for a press conference…

Resolutions for stronger communities

At SCSJ, we work every day to empower communities of color and economically disadvantaged people. At this time of reexamining our priorities and resolving to…

Five much-needed reforms that could make our politics matter again

Five Much-Needed Reforms That Could Make Our Politics Matter Again (via Moyers & Company) This post originally appeared at The Nation. “We have frequently printed…

Happy Outcome for Durham Homeless Does Not Absolve City Council and Police of Moral Responsibility for Panhandling Arrests

The Durham Police have endured considerable criticism in recent months for a series of high-profile shootings and revelations about the department’s controversial stop-and-search practices, which…

Latino Challenges Toward Racial Equity

Latino Challenges Toward Racial Equity
Guest post from Florence Siman of El Pueblo, Inc. We’ve heard it a million times: that Latinos are the fastest…

Complaints? Gripes? Detractors? Language matters as we work to reform policing in Durham.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.”– Mahatma Gandhi
Sticks and stones may break our…

On Human Rights Day, #ReformStorm seeks Immigration Reform

Today is International Human Rights Day, celebrated annually on December 10 to remind the world of the importance of basic human rights. This year, a…

FADE Coalition Responds to DPD Report

On Tuesday night, the Durham Human Relations Commission held its fourth in a series of special hearings to investigate allegations of racial profiling and selective…

Environmental Justice VICTORY for Citizens Against OLF

The Navy announced Tuesday that it has ended efforts to develop outlying landing field (OLF) sites in Virginia and North Carolina. This is a great…

FADE presents evidence of racial profiling at Durham PD certification hearing

The Durham FADE coalition is participating in an ongoing dialogue with the Durham Police Department regarding data showing the use of racial profiling in police…

HRC #3–Running from the Numbers

Guess what the Durham Police Department didn’t want to talk about at the third meeting of the Durham Human Relations Commission? The data. The FADE…