Voting Rights

Facts and figures on incarceration in America

Facts and Figures on Incarceration in America (via Moyers & Company) Over the last four decades, America’s prison population has increased dramatically. This tremendous growth…

SCSJ & ACLU Lawsuit challenging voting law will go to trial after 2014 elections

A federal judge today ruled that a trial over North Carolina’s sweeping voter suppression law will be held in 2015. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge…

Gerrymandering: "American Horribleness" right here at home

On December 10, 2013, The Daily Show ran a piece on election gerrymandering called “American Horribleness.” The Daily Show
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Mixed Views on Election Day Raid in Montgomery County

SCSJ has previously reported that Brentin Mock of Facing South did a story on a drug bust taking place on election day in Mount Gilead,…

Voter ID–The Disproportionate Impact on Women

SCSJ has been closely monitoring the issue of voter suppression among women due to newly implemented voting restrictions in North Carolina. The Washington Post recently…

Was Election Day drug bust an attempt to intimidate NC black voters?

Mt. Gilead mayor and former SCSJ client Patty Almond reached out to SCSJ to report a possible case of voter suppression in her small town…

Votes Not Counted: Mat's Story

Each post in SCSJ’s “Votes Not Counted” series tells the story of a person qualified to vote before the passage of North Carolina’s Monster Voter…

Voter ID – the major impact on women of color

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice has conducted a review of the 318,644 registered North Carolina voters from the 2012 elections who did not have…

Voting Rights

Concerns Over Voter Suppression Continue in NC

Concerns Over Voter Suppression Continue in NC Public News Service – NC | November 2013 | Download audio Citizenship/Representative Democracy Civil Rights Human Rights/Racial Justice…

Voting Rights

SCSJ files federal lawsuit challenging NC's new Voter Suppression Law

August 12, 2013

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation today filed a lawsuit challenging…

NC Citizens Get Graded on Whether They Vote

NC Citizens Get Graded on Whether They Vote Public News Service – NC | October 2013 | Download audio Citizenship/Representative Democracy Civil Rights Social Justice…

From Buncomb to Pasquotank, voter suppression in NC persists

Today’s news is full of stories about a Buncomb County NC elections official forced to resign after making racially inflammatory comments on The Daily Show.…