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The Verdict and True Accountability

Yesterday, many millions of us exhaled with relief. We exhaled for those who can’t: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Duante Wright, Adam Toledo, and so many, many more.  A legal process that has never been applied fairly has convicted Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. It’s a meaningful verdict in part because it’s so…

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EJUSA Applauds NJ’s $10mm Investment in Violence Prevention

Equal Justice USA has been working with a coalition of organizations who are on the ground in several New Jersey communities driving innovative programs and interventions that are reducing violence. Today’s announcement is a critical step toward growing that work and delivering true public safety to communities. “We are on the verge of a new…

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Momentum in New Jersey

On April 1, some of New Jersey’s fiercest advocates for community-based violence prevention sat down — virtually — with Gov. Phil Murphy to build out the road ahead and ensure the state remains a national leader on this all-important front.  In addition to myself, the group included Aqeela Sherrills and Solomon Middleton-Williams from the Newark…

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Are Life Sentences a Merciful Alternative to the Death Penalty?

Reimagining Justice This Month: March 2021 Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Are Life Sentences a Merciful Alternative to the Death Penalty?, Mother Jones Virginia’s recent repeal of the death penalty was both a reckoning with a…

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A large group of people gather outside of a state building in New York City holding posters against police brutality

A city’s commitment to understanding trauma to prevent violence

Reimagining Justice This Month | February 2021 Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Evaluation Reports Newark Community Street Team’s Efforts are Effective in Crime Reduction, TAPintoNewark Few cities have done as much as Newark, NJ, to think…

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Pivoting in this Health Crisis

At this point, there isn’t any aspect of life in the U.S. that hasn’t been affected by the pandemic. This is especially true in Black and Brown communities. Covid-19 has magnified every inequity. People are struggling to put food on the table, pay their rent, get high-quality health care, and make sure their kids are…

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A poster for the event reads "The Right to Repair: Hope and Healing in the Wake of Violence". The words are white text surrounded by a turquoise box. Behind the text, a black and white photo of two hands holding one another.

The Right to Repair

Can you imagine a world where we work together to repair the harm that is caused by violence? Where we work to understand the root causes of violence and deliver healing for all those impacted by harm? That vision is already taking shape! On Tuesday, November 10, EJUSA hosted “The Right to Repair: Hope &…

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If we want to change our justice system…

Reimagining Justice This Month | September 2020 Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. If we want to change our justice system, we have to change the way we talk about it, Represent Justice Words Matter. When we…

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A poster for the film "A Prison Within". A man with a shaved head stands in front of a prison, looking up toward the sky. He is wearing a long sleeved white shirt.

Learning the Stories of Trauma

San Quentin State Prison is notorious for a number of reasons. Located north of San Francisco, it is home to the nation’s largest death row — 737 people when Gov. Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on executions in 2019. San Quentin has been featured in movies, books, podcasts, and more, and earlier in 2020 held…

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Lakeesha Eure, a black woman with locs, stands in a park smiling with a community member. The man is wearing sunglasses, a red shirt and blazer, and is taller than Lakeesha.

Filling Gaps to Save Lives

EJUSA Trauma and Healing Network member Lakeesha Eure is the director of the Shani Baraka Women’s Resource Center in Newark, NJ. Since co-founding the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition (NAVC) in 2009, Lakeesha has led community-based violence intervention efforts throughout the city NAVC was founded to empower Newark residents with social and political awareness, and to support…

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