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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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,
