Ivette Ale and Dahlia Ferlito talk with Erin Heaney, director of Showing Up for Racial justice, about the history of white people taking anti-racist action in multiracial coalitions for collective liberation. This is a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing …
Beth Howard, Rural Kentucky Campaign Director at SURJ, came up with the slogan “Rednecks for Black Lives.”. She recently shared her story with Soledad O’Brien on Matter of Fact: Promises of Change Listening Tour, where she challenges her fellow …
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 …
By Roberto Roldan, WFPL Louisville
Workers at the jail in downtown Louisville are speaking out about what they see as a growing crisis. They say the jail is overcrowded, understaffed and its infrastructure — like computers, elevators and cell door …
By Adrian Florido, NPR
Adrian Florido: Police and vigilantes, says Erin Heaney (National Director for SURJ), respond less aggressively when there are white people in a crowd. The fact that Rittenhouse was acquitted despite his victims being white, she says, …
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 …
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 …
