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Galveston District Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss Racial Gerrymandering Case  

GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS – In a major win last week, a federal court in Texas refused to ignore Galveston County residents who said they were harmed by new maps created during a 2021 county commissioners precinct redistricting process — among their claims were racial discrimination, racial gerrymandering and vote dilution.  On March 30, 2023, United…

Open Letter Condemning the Arrest of Legal Observers on August 28, 2020

[…] gas is deployed, rubber bullets are fired, or a curfew is imposed. The presence of legal observers is even more important in these volatile situations. When the crowd shrinks and the number of militarized police officers grows, legal observers are needed to hold our government accountable. We, the undersigned organizations, unequivocally condemn the targeted arrest […]

A New Year; Same Old Story in Wake County

“This incident is more about how little this officer, and so many officers around the country, value black bodies, black health, black safety and security.”– Shaun King, NY Daily News, Jan. 4, 2017 Earlier this week, a Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) school resource officer (SRO) welcomed a student back from winter break by picking…

Selina Garcia: Multi-System Failure

At 7:30 a.m. on a Friday morning, I began to receive a flurry of text messages from Selina, a 17-year-old high school student in Wake County, North Carolina. “Jen, something happened on the school bus. The SRO (School Resource Officer) wants to take me to jail.” Within minutes, I was able to speak with Officer…

Anita Earls pens Washington Post column

The Washington Post has published a column by Anita Earls, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Executive Director. The column covers how dangerous the rhetoric being used in North Carolina’s election process is and the likely consequences of doing so. Ms. Earls writes: “Despite this, McCrory and other Republican Party officials are engaging in an…

Rocking the Vote at Appalachian State University

[…] can determine their outcome,” commented Ball in an interview following the event. “Who here is not registered to vote?” The silence that met Ball’s question to the crowd mid-way through the concert testifies not only to growing student awareness of and advocacy for voter rights issues at both the state and county levels but also […]

Clean Slate Clinic: The Full Rundown

On March 22nd, 2014, a coalition of community partners including the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC), CAARE, Union Baptist Church Career Ministries, The Durham Center for Senior Life and others organized a Clean Slate Clinic. The purpose of this clinic was to screen community members with criminal records to…

Second chances for people with criminal records: SCSJ's Clean Slate Clinics

03/24/14: Thank you to everyone that helped make Saturday’s Clean Slate Clinic a huge success! We were able to screen over 350 community members, and will be following up this week to let people know whether they are eligible for Clean Slate services. As one attendee noted, “it was like a family reunion” – community…

The dignity of work: helping people with criminal convictions find jobs

February 05, 2014 Columns » Citizen >>Write to the editor “Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Crime?” prevents nonviolent offenders from re-entering society by Bob Geary @rjgeary In his job as a staff attorney with the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Daryl Atkinson fields calls from men and women who can’t get a…

Documentary underway on the Wilmington Massacre of 1898

[…] American South. “With the importance of this story needing to be told, we felt there was no better time than now to capitalize on the popularity of crowd funding by launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion of the project. No one has ever done a documentary on this subject the way that […]

Honoring Nelson Mandela

[…] on South Africa to continue reforms. I saw Mandela speak in Boston at the Hatchshell about the need to retain “sanctions until democracy”. Nelson Mandela addresses the crowd at the Boston Hatch Shell, June 23, 1990 (Photo: Paul W. Locke). A few months later, when I was in college, I came to the frightening […]