the black vote for candidates Bob Becker and Chris Woodhull's 2003 campaigns. Redd later served as co-Campaign Manager for DC Statehood Green Party candidate Darryl Moch's 2010 run for an At-Large seat in Washington, DC's City Council race. Redd was the DC Statehood Green Party's nominated candidate in DC's At-Large Council race in its April 23, 2013 Special Election. He campaigned on affordable housing, jobs and equal rights for returning citizens, government ethics and accountability, preserving public assets and refused to support gentrification at the expense of longtime residents. He garnered less than 2% of the city's vote. Redd ran for the DC Council again during the COVID-19 era in 2020, vying for the Ward 4 seat against Democrat, Janeese Lewis George, losing with just over 5% of the vote. Redd sought election as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) in DC's upper northwest Brightwood-Manor Park neighborhood in 2016, losing that bid, only to run a write-in campaign and win in November 2018 and currently serves as commissioner of Ward 4's ANC 4B05. Legal activism In 1996, Redd served two years in Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. He was released in 1998 and returned to his job at ABC book warehouse. Subsequently, Redd served as Co-Pastor of Holy Jerusalem Church of God, located in Mechanicsville, Knoxville for two years. He urged congregants to organize to save the 70-year-old church from condemnation by the city, but it was compulsorily purchased by eminent domain and demolished; a single-family home was constructed on the site. The January 31, 2002 issue of the Knoxville News Sentinel reported church members stating that city officials forced them to sell their site. Redd and six fellow laborers founded S7 in an effort to unionize their workplace. S7's work expanded into anti-police brutality, reparations and fair housing advocacy. Arrest Redd was arrested, and indicted in early 2004 on drug trafficking charges, which he denied, alleging that the charges were contrived in retaliation for S7's challenges to police brutality in East Knoxville. In late 2004 he was convicted via plea agreement and sentenced in Knoxville. Redd fired his court-appointed counsel and challenged his conviction pro se; in February 2007, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Redd's favor vacating, thus overturning his conviction. The Federal prosecutor's office subsequently pursued even greater charges after Redd refused a second plea bargain from the US government. A jury retrial in April 2008 acquitted Redd