JusticeAid News
JusticeAid is pleased to share exciting news about our 2021 grantee partner, the NDS PACE Program (Police Accountability/Community Empowerment). PACE is a new effort from Neighborhood Defender Service (NDS), a [...]
We’re Taking on Racism in Policing
New Year. New Justice Focus: Racism in Policing Every year JusticeAid identifies a pressing civil rights issue to spotlight and carefully selects a nonprofit addressing that issue as its grantee [...]
Silence Is Not an Option
America’s rampant racism continues to be revealed in the most stark black and white terms. Last week Donald Trump incited imminent lawless action, which sparked a riotous mob of white supremacist [...]
Our Impact Report Is Here
During this year of tremendous challenges, both to the health of our world and the fabric of our democracy, we are proud of our accomplishments and grateful [...]
Hold on! A new year is coming
Over the past year we hope you've enjoyed reading our music blog and accompanying playlists, attended one of our virtual events, or joined us in safeguarding the right to vote. Our 2020 Impact Report illustrates [...]
We’re So Grateful
Every year JusticeAid identifies a pressing civil rights issue to spotlight, and carefully selects a nonprofit addressing that issue as its grantee partner. Your support of JusticeAid [...]
Here is what your support made possible
Every year JusticeAid identifies a pressing civil rights issue to spotlight, and carefully selects a nonprofit addressing that issue to support. In 2020, with our focus on [...]
Music That Matters Blog: Songs to Vote by
Here at JusticeAid we’ve been doing what you’ve been doing: working to ensure that the right to vote is protected, extended, and not suppressed. Thanks to your support, we’ve raised money [...]
12 Months of Music That Matters: Music to Vote By
OCTOBER PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE & SPOTIFY H ere at JusticeAid we’ve been doing what you’ve been doing: working to ensure that the [...]
What a Show! Thank You, Thank You!
At our fall concert, we came together to rejoice in the beauty of music, to recharge, and to ready ourselvesfor a safe, fair, and enthusiastic voter turnout on Election [...]
Join Us at the 2nd “Voices to Protect the Vote” Online Concert, Oct. 17th at 8 pm ET
Dear Friends of JusticeAid, With just 32 days until November 3rd, we know you are doing all you can to get out the vote. We are, too. JusticeAid’s virtual [...]
Winners of the #JusticeAid Prize Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the #JusticeAid Prize. Find every potential voter you know and share these inspirational films by young filmmakers! Links to each of the #JusticeAidPrizewinning films are [...]
August Update
One hundred years ago this month, women finally secured the right to vote. This month’s Music That Matters is an homage to the Suffragettes, Black and white [...]
12 Months of Music That Matters: Women’s Rights
PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE & SPOTIFY Women’s suffrage was not won easily and it was not won early. It is astonishing that it is [...]
How Can We Engage Our Youth in the 2020 Elections?
This year JusticeAid’s focus has been on engaging voters, fighting racist voter suppression, and getting out the vote in spite of the pandemic. We know you share these concerns [...]
Music That Matters: Injustices of Policing
PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE & SPOTIFY Racial injustice in policing is not new in America. It is endemic and has a long history, beginning [...]
Youth Film Challenge: Deadline for Submissions Approaching
At our recent public forum on voter suppression, Lift Every Voice and Vote, panelists Kristin Clarke and Maria Teresa Kumar stressed the urgency for strong voter turnout among our nation's youth. [...]
Thank You! Lift Every Voice and Vote Forum
Thank you to all who joined us for Lift Every Voice and Vote, JusticeAid's 2020 Public Forum that highlighted barriers to voting in the age of COVID-19 and gave each of [...]
Honoring Black Lives and the Urgent Need to Dismantle Systems of White Supremacy
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray—all of them sons and daughters, some of them mothers and fathers, [...]
Stacey Abrams and Hakeem Jeffries to Headline June 14 Public Forum, Lift Every Voice and Vote
We are thrilled to announce Lift Up Your Voice and Vote, an online public forum in partnership with The Riverside Church of New York, featuring Hon.Stacey Abrams, Founder, Fair Fight and Fair Count; Kristen Clarke, President and [...]
12 Months of Music That Matters: No Love Excepted
W elcome to this month’s Music that Matters. This month we focus on social justice movements surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation. June is a special time to [...]
Heartfelt Thanks…and We’re Re-Airing “Voices” May 26th
We are filled with gratitude for the outpouring of support we received last night during our online concert, Voices to Protect the Vote. How compelling to have so many of you [...]
Meet the Artists: #JusticeAidConcert
Next Monday evening, May 18th, 2020, we invite you to join us for Voices to Protect the Vote, a cause-focused, intimate, unique musical experience brought to you by JusticeAid [...]
Join us at #JusticeAidConcert on May 18
In normal times this would be an invitation to attend a live benefit concert in support of our 2020 beneficiary, Election Protection / 866-OUR-VOTE. But these are not normal times, so [...]
12 Months of Music That Matters: Economic Injustice
OCTOBER PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE & SPOTIFY This month’s Music that Matters focuses on economic justice. It makes sense, as we are releasing this [...]
12 Months of Music That Matters: You Are Only Issued One Earth
In observance of Earth Day on April 22, this month’s edition of JusticeAid’s Twelve Months of Music that Matters focuses on songs about protecting the only mother we [...]
Paine the Poet, “Poet of the People”
Paine the Poet will be performing at JusticeAid’s Voices to Protect the Vote online May 18th concert in support of Election Protection and the 866-OUR-VOTE coalition hotline. Paine The [...]
Will You Help Us Protect Voting in the Age of COVID-19?
Dear Friends, A s the world pushes the pause button, JusticeAid remains vigilant in its resolve to protect every American’s right to vote in the upcoming elections—even though COVID-19 [...]
Songs to Uplift During Trying Times
We hope this playlist keeps your spirits up with some classic songs, quiet treasures, and perhaps a few new artists to explore. [...]
Voting in the Age of COVID-19
JusticeAid is raising money this year to provide Election Protection the financial support it needs to engage voters and fight voter suppression. COVID-19 and the need for physical distancing [...]
In Peace and Love: JusticeAid’s March Songs of Protest
Welcome to the second edition of our Songs of Protest. This month we focus on songs that protest war and its consequences. You'll find songs that protest specific wars, songs that protest all wars, [...]
JusticeAid Hires First Managing Director
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer "Jenny" Chandler as JusticeAid's first Managing Director. Jenny brings more than 20 years of experience as a nonprofit [...]
Election Protection Is Fighting Voter Suppression
Dear Friends, This election year we are focusing on voter suppression and voter empowerment. We join a nationwide effort to: Combat voter suppression laws and tactics that manipulate election [...]
People Get Ready: “Songs of Protest” Launches on MLK Jr. Day
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." —Martin Luther King, Jr. Dear Friends, The soul of JusticeAid rests upon the powerful relationship between music [...]
End-of-Year Appeal
Dear Friends, Over the past six years, JusticeAid has given away close to one million dollars of critical financial support for organizations on the cutting edge of fighting injustice. 100% [...]
It’s a Wrap! Many Thanks…
Dear friends, More than 300 people came out to support JusticeAid in New York City and Washington, DC, this fall for two intimate jazz evenings. Thanks to your indefatigable devotion, [...]
Meet the Artists
Matthew Whitaker Matthew Whitaker at The Jazz Standard, New York City Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:30 PM: Doors Open; 7:30 PM: Dinner 8 PM: PERFORMANCE 116 [...]
Buy Tickets and Support JusticeAid
"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails." —Nelson Mandela WHITAKER/NYC TICKETS WHITAKER/NYC TICKETS Every day in the [...]
Upcoming Fall 2019 Concerts: Save the Dates!
This past year, JusticeAid, through our concerts and outreach programs in New York and Washington, DC, raised and donated a total of over $375,000 for our three beneficiaries: The Immigrant [...]
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Joins DC Forum on Ending Criminalization of Immigration
W e are thrilled to announce that Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will join the panel discussion at our free public forum, co-hosted by the Immigrant Defense Project, our 2019 beneficiary. [...]
Profile with Louis Perez, Los Lobos: April 16 at The Hamilton
According to Louie Perez, co-founder, songwriter, and guitarist for Los Lobos, "Mass incarceration, detention, and deportation are tearing people apart.” The legendary rock band will be performing at this [...]
IDP Feature
A mother screams for help as her son is dragged towards an unmarked car by men who refuse to identify themselves. A child goes to bed every night wondering if [...]
Indefensible: Immigrants Trapped by the Criminalization of the Immigration Process
JUSTICEAID IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE ticket are now on sale for our April 16th music benefit with Los Lobos in support of the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP). TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019, [...]
Announcing Our 2019 Theme and Save the Dates!
JusticeAid is thrilled to return this spring with Los Lobos, a concert in support of the Immigrant Defense Project, the beneficiary of our 2019 campaign: Indefensible: Immigrants Trapped by the Criminalization of [...]
Heartfelt Thanks: A Great Year!
This past year, we were able to raise over $220,000 for our 2018 beneficiaries Civil Rights Corps and Essie Justice Group in two sold-out concerts: one in Washington, DC and the other in New York, each with accompanying public [...]
20th Century Debtors’ Prisons
A single mom laments her son's 20-month stay in a county jail. "He's just sitting there. No trial, no nothing," Another is driven to secure a loan at 150 [...]
Randall Horton
Letters from the Locked Away Randall Horton past honors include the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment [...]