by Starlette Thomas | Feb 9, 2024 | Feature-, News
The Players Coalition announced its 2024 social justice partners on February 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s focus is community-centered solutions that embrace a public health approach to violence. The accomplishments of its 2023 partners were also recognized. ...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 16, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Faith in New Jersey aims to empower the community. Its leaders have faith in organizing and urge faith leaders to get more involved as part of their prophetic calling. A multifaith and multiethnic network of faith leaders and communities, Faith in New Jersey works to...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 15, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Najee Seabrooks was fatally shot by police while experiencing a mental health crisis on March 3, 2023. The 31-year-old worked as a member of the violence intervention group, the Paterson Healing Collective, a hospital-based violence intervention program in Passaic...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 24, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, News
Are we in a new civil rights movement? Sam Heath, manager of the Evangelical Network, posed this question to historian and author Jemar Tisby during a recent webinar. Hosted by Equal Justice USA, “a national organization that works to transform the justice system by...
