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Partnering with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities in the south to defend and advance their political, social and economic rights through the combination of legal advocacy, research, organizing and communications.

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December 16, 2020

Your First 48 Toolkit

Your First 48 Hours Toolkit is a Durham County resource guide for successful reentry after incarceration, connecting you to resources and service providers that help overcome the barriers to a successful reentry. Returning to your community with a criminal record can be a difficult task due to the collateral consequence of incarceration that limits access […]

December 1, 2020

Umar Muhammad Clean Slate Toolkit

The Umar Muhammad Clean Slate Toolkit is a free resource providing a step-by-step guide to remove eligible North Carolina charges from a person’s record. With a typical criminal record expungement costing between $1,500 and $2,000 in court costs and attorney’s fees, the toolkit is designed to help individuals navigate the process independently, making expunctions easier to […]

August 18, 2019

The Freedom to Vote

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that disenfranchise people living in our communities who are on felony probation and parole. Unfortunately, this policy, which dates back to the early 1900’s, disenfranchised nearly 70,000 North Carolinians in 2017. This number doesn’t even begin to count the number of people who never re-registered to […]

February 15, 2019

Open Data Policing Website Manual

USES OF OPEN DATA POLICING Locate an Officer’s Career Stop and Search History Stopped by the police? Use our “Find a Stop” feature to locate your traffic stop. Click on the associated Officer ID number to display the enforcement history of the officer who stopped you. Maryland data includes an officer’s stop, search, and contraband […]

December 5, 2018

Open Data Policing

Open Data Policing is a first-of-its-kind platform that aims to make real the recommendation of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing to make stop, search, and use-of-force “data…publicly available to ensure transparency.”

November 5, 2018

Clean Slate Project

November 5, 2018

One Mistake, Two Journeys

June 18, 2018

A Mother’s Fight for Justice

May 1, 2016

The Benefits of Ban the Box: A Case Study of Durham, NC

For many job applicants around the country, one question blocks them from gainful employment and economic opportunity. A single question, often posed as a checkbox on the front of most job applications, asks about an applicant’s criminal history. For many employers, it has become a way to weed out applicants before ever considering qualifications such as education […]

June 12, 2014

Excessive force by Durham PD

February 15, 2013

Stories of Racial Profiling in Durham

In 2013, following a series of citizen complaints, Durham Mayor Bill Bell asked the city’s Human Relations Commission to investigate allegations of discriminatory policing by the Durham Police Department. After seven months of hearings, the 14-member commission, persuaded by statistical evidence and testimony of those directly affected, issued a report confirming “the existence of racial […]

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SAVE THE DATE: Fri, 1/29, Mitch Brown, our VR Counsel & @EJW_org Fellow sponsored by the Ottinger Foundation will be a panelist during the George Henry White Day Program hosted by the Phoenix Historical Society! Visit our FB or LinkedIn pages to learn more and for the Zoom link. pic.twitter.com/TMNc…

About 2 days ago

SAVE THE DATE: Sat, 2/27, from 9AM-noon CST, @AllisonJRiggs will be speaking on a panel about #redistricting. Hosted by @LWVLouisiana, this convention is free, open to the public & incredibly important to attend as redistricting occurs this year. Register: bit.ly/3sLX10F pic.twitter.com/FabD…

About 2 days ago

Congressman John Lewis spent his life fighting for racial justice & voting rights. We teamed up w/ @Participant @MagnoliaPics & @JohnLewisDoc to #MakeGoodTrouble in the record-breaking election. To our fellow good troublemakers: we're just getting started. bit.ly/goodtroubleca…

About 3 days ago

Mitch Brown, our VR Counsel & @EJW_org Fellow sponsored by the Ottinger Foundation, spoke w/ @NCPolicyWatch about voting while on felony probation or parole: those who do so can be prosecuted for voting illegally even if they don’t know they’re ineligible. bit.ly/3sIQunB

About 3 days ago

1. Today, we filed an amicus brief to protect voters’ rights in Arizona. In 2016, Arizona lawmakers passed laws limiting ballot collection and out-of-precinct voting to make it easier for local and state government officials to discriminate against voters of color.

About 4 days ago

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