Beyond Book Bands: Building Power in Public Schools and Libraries
Whether it’s Toni Morrison’s Beloved that opened your heart in high school English class or Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow that powered a generation of
Whether it’s Toni Morrison’s Beloved that opened your heart in high school English class or Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow that powered a generation of
Protecting abortion access is racial justice. People of color are disproportionately affected by abortion bans– and the right uses abortion as a heavily moralized single-issue wedge
In 2009, I moved back to my hometown of 2,500 people in rural South Dakota to be a teacher. That same year, my little sister,
This month, we’re celebrating SURJ’s 14th birthday! In 2009, a few dozen white folks involved in social change work hopped on a conference phone line
This weekend, three Black people were murdered in Jacksonville, Florida by a white person influenced by racist ideology. Our hearts are broken and we are holding
Check out our latest video, “Right on Time,” that details why we organize white people and how SURJ is working to block authoritarianism in 2024 and build a white working class base to win beyond the election.
The second prong of SURJ’s three year strategy to block authoritarianism and build a base of white people to win is to grow our work
The first prong of SURJ’s three year strategy is to stop authoritarianism from taking over the federal government in 2024. For the next three years,
“SURJ has taught me the practice of hope as a joyful discipline. To resist the pacifying, demobilizing culture of doom scrolling, cynicism, resignation, and passive
Watch Erin Heaney, SURJ National Director, and W. Kamau and Kate Schatz – authors of newly released DO THE WORK!: An Antiracist Activity Book –