By Ayana Archie, Louisville Courier Journal | Photo by Joe Sonka
About 50 people gathered in downtown Louisville on Saturday afternoon to protest the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges against him Friday, more …
In the 2021 Buffalo Sheriff’s Race, SURJ Buffalo joined a multi-racial coalition of local partners to do our part to disrupt the cycle of violence in the Erie County sheriff’s office. Though our candidate, Kim Beaty, did not win the …
In the 2021 general election, SURJ Ohio members in Cleveland, Ohio joined a multiracial coalition of Black-led partner organizations to mobilize voters and win on Issue 24 — a ballot initiative that will create the most powerful police civilian review …
Photo by Sean Krajacic / Kenosha News
By now you’ve heard the news that Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot three people, killing two, last summer in Kenosha, WI at an event protesting the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob …
Indigenous solidarity is an essential part of the struggle for racial justice. We know this nation was built on stolen land and broken treaties — and that Indigenous people today continue to be subjected to racist violence in the form …
by Ray Levy Uyeda, Yes! Magazine
A Grassroots Culture Shift for Reparations
Until federal reparations are actualized, grassroots organizations across the country are heeding the call to right these wrongs.
“I felt, if I’m going to wait for the government …
Those who benefit from the status quo saturate our culture with this lie: if Black people and people of color win, white people lose. We know this false logic only benefits the wealthy few. We know that there is plenty …
Op-Ed by LSURJ member Carla F Wallace, Louisville Courier Journal / Photo by Alton Strupp
In the summer of 1985, Robert and Martha Marshall’s home was firebombed in the Sylvania Neighborhood of Southwest Jefferson County. I remember standing with …
by Erin Heaney, SURJ National Director
I believe our movements can win. And I know white people have a crucial role to play in getting us to the world we all deserve.
Over the course of the next eight weeks, …
by Erin Heaney, SURJ National Director | Photo by Sierra King, Survival Media Agency
Today I’m more convinced than ever that our collective future in part depends on our success in organizing white people away from the solidarity of whiteness …
