By Zoey Laird|Oct 10, 2024|5 min
Criminal Justice
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
Home Is Where the Disruption of the Status Quo Is: A Conversation with Shemeka Frazier Sorrells on A Better Glynn’s takedown of a Confederate symbol
“I wasn’t always sure,” Shemeka Frazier Sorrells says of moving with her family last October to her hometown of Brunswick, Georgia, the place of Ahmaud Arbery’s 2020 slaying by white supremacists. The subsequent mismanagement of the case by local officials,…
Cop City: How did we get here?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News The growing tensions around the planned Atlanta police training facility have sadly escalated resulting in the death of a protestor, the wounding of a state patrolman, and property damage in downtown Atlanta. This…
Voting within the Carceral System: A Conversation with Shaun Smith on the Future of Democracy
When Shaun Smith, founder of the Black Push organization, whose core mission is advocacy for society’s most vulnerable, with a focus on ex-offenders, talks about becoming a minister, he speaks at once of a vocation he loves and of an internal conflict born from a life…
Voters Demand Accountability Among Those Responsible for the January 6th Capital Attack and Conspiracy to Overturn 2020 Election Results
The January 6th Capital Insurrection was and continues to be a defining moment in U.S. history and for democracy. Recently, the Defend Democracy Project and Public Policy Polling partnered together to conduct polling research to measure public sentiment on the January…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…
Skin in the Game
A Conversation with District Attorney Anita Howard on the Failure of SB 504, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Future of Public Safety
Stop Cop City Movement Advocates for Victims of Police Violence a Year on after Referendum Campaign
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
Home Is Where the Disruption of the Status Quo Is: A Conversation with Shemeka Frazier Sorrells on A Better Glynn’s takedown of a Confederate symbol
“I wasn’t always sure,” Shemeka Frazier Sorrells says of moving with her family last October to her hometown of Brunswick, Georgia, the place of Ahmaud Arbery’s 2020 slaying by white supremacists. The subsequent mismanagement of the case by local officials,…
Cop City: How did we get here?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News The growing tensions around the planned Atlanta police training facility have sadly escalated resulting in the death of a protestor, the wounding of a state patrolman, and property damage in downtown Atlanta. This…
Voting within the Carceral System: A Conversation with Shaun Smith on the Future of Democracy
When Shaun Smith, founder of the Black Push organization, whose core mission is advocacy for society’s most vulnerable, with a focus on ex-offenders, talks about becoming a minister, he speaks at once of a vocation he loves and of an internal conflict born from a life…
Voters Demand Accountability Among Those Responsible for the January 6th Capital Attack and Conspiracy to Overturn 2020 Election Results
The January 6th Capital Insurrection was and continues to be a defining moment in U.S. history and for democracy. Recently, the Defend Democracy Project and Public Policy Polling partnered together to conduct polling research to measure public sentiment on the January…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…
Skin in the Game
A Conversation with District Attorney Anita Howard on the Failure of SB 504, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Future of Public Safety
Stop Cop City Movement Advocates for Victims of Police Violence a Year on after Referendum Campaign
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
Home Is Where the Disruption of the Status Quo Is: A Conversation with Shemeka Frazier Sorrells on A Better Glynn’s takedown of a Confederate symbol
“I wasn’t always sure,” Shemeka Frazier Sorrells says of moving with her family last October to her hometown of Brunswick, Georgia, the place of Ahmaud Arbery’s 2020 slaying by white supremacists. The subsequent mismanagement of the case by local officials,…
Cop City: How did we get here?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News The growing tensions around the planned Atlanta police training facility have sadly escalated resulting in the death of a protestor, the wounding of a state patrolman, and property damage in downtown Atlanta. This…
Voting within the Carceral System: A Conversation with Shaun Smith on the Future of Democracy
When Shaun Smith, founder of the Black Push organization, whose core mission is advocacy for society’s most vulnerable, with a focus on ex-offenders, talks about becoming a minister, he speaks at once of a vocation he loves and of an internal conflict born from a life…
Voters Demand Accountability Among Those Responsible for the January 6th Capital Attack and Conspiracy to Overturn 2020 Election Results
The January 6th Capital Insurrection was and continues to be a defining moment in U.S. history and for democracy. Recently, the Defend Democracy Project and Public Policy Polling partnered together to conduct polling research to measure public sentiment on the January…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…
Skin in the Game
A Conversation with District Attorney Anita Howard on the Failure of SB 504, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Future of Public Safety