The 8th Amendment Project (8AP) will be participating in Netroots Nation 2025, the annual conference of progressive activists from across the nation, which is taking place this year in New Orleans.
On the afternoon of Thursday, August 7, 8AP’s director of leadership development, Furonda Brasfield, will take part in a panel discussion on Digital Advocacy to End the Death Penalty (more information below).
Other panelists will include:
– Samantha Kennedy, Executive Director, The Promise of Justice Initiative
– Michael Cahoon, Organizer, The Promise of Justice Initiative
– Michelle “ML” Smith, Director, MO Justice
– Tiara Cooper, Policy Expert, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
The panel will explore historical racism in the death penalty, from its roots in lynching and racial terror, to its disparate use against Black and marginalized communities today.
“The death penalty was implemented to dehumanize, control, and erase Black lives under the cover of law,” Brasfield said. “We can draw a direct line from racial terror lynchings to the modern machinery of death, exposing how old systems of racial violence survive through new policies and practices.”
Brasfield and other panelists will discuss the power of viral content and digital mobilization in shifting public opinion.
The discussion will take place Thursday, August 7, 3:45-4:45 p.m. CDT at Netroots Nation 2025 in the New Orleans Convention Center located at 900 Convention Center Blvd in New Orleans.
For more information, contact Jon Crane at joncrane@criticalpr.com or 203-982-4575.
About the 8th Amendment Project:
The 8th Amendment Project was founded in 2014 to unite and lead the national movement to end the death penalty. The campaign brings together dozens of national, state, and local partners around a shared strategy to achieve repeal and discourage use of the death penalty by working to change the public discourse about capital punishment in the United States.
