As a result of years of writing, filing complaints and lawsuits, calling, protesting and other forms of agitation and advocacy, the...

This week, several community groups got together to demand accountability and transparency from Metro government in light of the recent...

This past session has closed. What happened with the bills we supported? Here is a brief summary of where the bills we were interested in...

The Tennessee General Assembly is still in session and we are still fighting for our rights. One of the bills we are supporting is HB2380...

Huge thank you and shout out to our colleague and fellow freedom fighter, Rahim Buford and the Bridges to Care family for making sure...

While we are not sponsoring any bills this year, we are watching several. There are few we support but unfortunately, there are more we...

Meet Tavaria Merritt and the "Be the Change" community As published in Autostraddle, June 13, 2023 "Today, Be the Change offers programs...

An article by our friend, Tony Vick, published in FilterMag "Criminalizing sex doesn’t mean it goes away. It means people do it less...

An article from our friend, Tony Vick, published in Solitary Watch "In the cold, clammy chamber of solitary confinement, I feel isolated...

AbolitionWorksTN Founding Organizer Shawn'a Hatcher talks about her life and work. "Shawn'a said her idea for starting Rychus Rydz and...

"In the criminal system, having your life constrained and restricted, even after your sentence is over, has become a fact of life."...

Movie Screening - Angola: Do You Hear Us? When: April 20, 2023, 6:00PM Where: Scarritt Bennett Center, Harambee Auditorium Join No...

WHY MANDATORY REFERRAL OF YOUTH IS HARMFUL THE CASE AGAINST HB1029/SB1159 and HB1104/SB608 The Tennessee State Legislature continues its...

I was born in 1967, the third child of unstable, poor parents. My father was a womanizer, but my mother loved the ground he walked on....

A good man, a transformed man, was murdered by the State of Tennessee on May 16th. It has been an exhausting week of sacred struggle...

On April 22, 2019, after years of work, SJR159 passed, which is the first step in making the abolition of slavery universal in Tennessee,...

Not so long ago I was homeless and lost. This wasn’t the Jesus’ salvation kind of lost, but the sort where my child-like self got trapped...

Tennessee is the only state in the U.S. with two life without parole sentences. HB1128/SB1181 seeks to change that, and here’s why. In...

by Jacob L. Davis Jacob Davis is currently incarcerated in a Tennessee prison with a 51 year life sentence. He wrote the following story...

Jane Luna is the mother of Jason Toll, the 33 year old man killed by corrections officers during a cell extraction at Riverbend prison...