Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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.

Texas Groups Join Regional Effort to Prepare Voters for Redistricting Process

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 22, 2021 Media Contact:Sailor Jones, Communications Director, SCSJ, sailor@scsj.org, 919-260-5906 Fair Maps Texas, the Texas NAACP, and the League of Women Voters Texas join the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) to prepare Texas residents to engage and educate communities in fair districting AUSTIN, TX (September 22, 2021) — As the […]

OP-ED: Gov. Abbott’s Attacks on Texas’ Checks and Balances Will Not Go Unchecked

Read the League of Women Voters of Texas’ recent op-ed HERE. Angry at his party’s failure to pass a sweeping anti-voter law, last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a new state budget that defunds the entire state legislature. The move endangers our democracy, undermines the will of Texans, and attacks the constitutional checks and […]

OP-ED: Arrested for voting? Hervis Rogers and the case against disappearing our voters.

Read SCSJ’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Mitchell Brown’s Houston Chronicle op-ed HERE. Last week, when Attorney General Ken Paxton arrested Hervis Rogers for allegedly casting an illegal ballot, he did so knowing that Rogers is considered an American hero. Rogers made national headlines after waiting more than six hours to vote at a Houston polling place […]

What is racial gerrymandering and why should I care?

Recently Slate writer David Weigel wrote a detailed article discussing the effects of racial gerrymandering on politics in North Carolina, one of the states where SCSJ is deeply engaged in voting rights work. In addressing redistricting issues in North Carolina, Weigel writes that the state underwent a 2011 redistricting overhaul at the hands of a […]