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 …
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 …
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 Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic | photo by KC Kratt
Erie County Sheriff and Trump superfan Timothy B. Howard should be as notorious as Joe Arpaio, the famously racist Republican sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, whom Howard sees as …
by Ken Baker, Wave 3 News
There’s a renewed push to end cash bonds in the Metro, with one local group saying it negatively impacts some in Louisville.
Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice spent the day knocking on doors …
Op-Ed in the Courier Journal by Greg Tichenor and Jillian Pearsall, Louisville SURJ members
LMPD Chief Shields’ call for an internal JCPS police force to “tackle” the city’s youth violence problem is misinformed. While the violence that took place in …
By Oliver Whang, The New Yorker
Cara Grimes and her fiancé, Justin Pitts, moved with their eight-year-old daughter from Delaware, Ohio, to Bedford County, Tennessee, in the spring of 2019. Grimes was pregnant, and the family took up residence in …
by David Sands, Second Wave Media
SURJ Detroit member Erin Dwyer would be the first to acknowledge that people of color, especially Black people, have always been at the forefront of fighting for racial justice in the United States. Dwyer’s …
In a recent episode of Next Economy Now, Ryan Honeyman gets together with Erin Heaney, executive director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ).
Erin shares about her family history of involvement in activism, from the struggles in Northern …
By Emma Ockerman at Vox
Illustration by Grace Shin/VICE News
George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin one year ago today, an event that spurned the largest mass uprising the globe has even seen and bringing …
