Stokes County Commissioners voted 3-2 Monday to silence its own community and approve a massive hyperscale AI data center known as Project Delta.

Behind closed doors and away from public meetings, county election officials across North Carolina were reportedly being pressured to cut early voting hours and sites.

“We are not terrorists.”

Galveston voters urge a federal court to reject the County’s mootness claim and rule the 2021 precinct map unconstitutional.

After weeks of public outcry, the Granville County Board of Elections will reconvene to reconsider an early voting plan that would disenfranchise Black voters.

How an anti-ICE protest became a landmark federal conspiracy case

Prairieland protester Savanna Batten is appealing a 50-year federal prison sentence for attending a protest and running a book club.

Bladen County residents turned out in droves this week to defeat a proposal to shrink the Board of Commissioners from nine members to five, a move that would have watered down Black political represen...

SCSJ stands with our unsheltered neighbors who are experiencing violence at the hands of local and federal law enforcement through raids, removals, and displacement.

Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) is opposed to the federal government’s aggressive expansion of immigration detention centers.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections is quietly finalizing rules that could purge thousands of eligible voters from the rolls. The public comment window closes March 16 and what’s at stake dema...

Community groups and Walnut Cove area residents filed a lawsuit today in an effort to protect the Dan River corridor from the development of an AI data center.

A new federal lawsuit alleges immigration agents are making wrongful warrantless arrests, including a U.S. citizen who said agents stopped him twice and smashed his truck window.

A U.S. citizen filed federal damages claims after a confrontation in Charlotte late last year where ICE agents violently and wrongfully detained him.

A lawsuit was filed today on behalf of five individuals to prevent unlawful warrantless immigration arrests across North Carolina.

This impact report captures a year defined by resilience, collective power, and forward momentum.

SCSJ’s Reframing Public Safety series explores, interrogates, lifts up, and shares policies and practices that increase public safety and justice for all.

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by Chemours and DuPont to hide documents related to the release of harmful substances into the Cape Fear River.

A panel of federal judges will not block the North Carolina General Assembly’s latest congressional map.

Billions of dollars of pipelines, power plants, compressor stations and other methane gas infrastructure are at various stages of development across our state.  We can rise up against this irresponsible surge of new fossil fuels that would increase electric bills while damaging public health and our land, air and water.

Individual voters and two pro-democracy groups are challenging the NC General Assembly’s latest congressional map that targets the state’s historic Black belt.

SCSJ reached a settlement with the NC Parole Commission, securing changes to how it conducts parole reviews for people sentenced as children in NC.

SCSJ and partners are urging stronger protections in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit renewal for the former Alcoa Badin Works facility.

A federal judge has denied lawmakers’ requests to prevent trial in a lawsuit asserting Senate Bill 747 infringes on the fundamental right to vote.

The sheriff of Iredell County said many deputies choose to wear face coverings to protect their identities from future threats. He doesn’t have a policy on it.

A prosecutor used low-quality video to convict a former pro-basketball player in a double murder. Now he's getting another shot in court.

James Richardson, a man wrongfully convicted for the murders of two people nearly two decades ago in Pitt County, will have his case back in court this month.

The Edgecombe County Board of Education unanimously adopted a community redistricting map for its 2026 electoral districts earlier this week.

This infographic outlines how to take preventative measures to respond more quickly and effectively when floods occur.

Last month, crickets were released at a Mecklenburg County Commissioners’ meeting, as a form of protest against the training facility.

On July 9, 2025, a series of pivotal legal battles unfolded across the American South, spotlighting the enduring and contentious issue of racial gerrymandering…

Why We Gather This August marks 19 years since North Carolina carried out its last execution, a reminder of how close we've come to ending the death penalty and how far we still have to go. Since 19...

More than 1.5 million North Carolinians are considered “missing voters,” individuals who are eligible to vote but either aren’t registered to vote or aren’t participating in elections, according to “N...

Citizens' legal backers allege the 293-acre landfill planned for Burnettown, by Jefferson Elementary, wouldn't have been OK'd except for a "loophole."

SCSJ commended OSHA’s eat Injury and Illness Prevention Rulemaking as a positive first step, but stressed the need for greater equity considerations.

We're taking the lawless NC legislature to court for rigging voting maps against the people of North Carolina — a scheme that unjustly comes at the expense of Black voters, especially. It's time to…

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the opposite.

A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit against CPCC challenging its transparency practices and actions against two community members.

In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter rolls, and share commonsense policy solutions to fix it.

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to ensure state and local governments do not pass laws or policies that deny American citizens the equal right to vote based on race. On June 25, 2013, the…