Dismantling Structural Racism and Mass Incarceration Across North Carolina
Through community education, narrative shift, and mobilization, Emancipate NC supports North Carolina’s people as they free themselves from mass incarceration and structural racism.
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Refund Raleigh!
Photo Depicts Summer Intern Jasmin Benas and Executive Director Dawn Blagrove at the Refund Raleigh event. Report on Refund Raleigh event by Intern...
Stop Arresting Us
Photo depicts Kristie Puckett-Williams and Kerwin Pittman in handcuffs, but undaunted, in Elizabeth City, NC, after being arrested in the course of...
Free Lester Kearney
Photo depicts Emancipate NC Advocate Cierra Cobb speaking to WRAL after Mr. Kearney's bond hearing in Warrenton, NC on May 20, 2021. A criminal...
Has Mr. Kearney Been Tried In The Media?
Bond Motion Reveals That Defendant in Lake Gaston Home Invasion May Be Innocent; Has Been Unfairly Tried In the Media Warrenton, NC, May 20,...
Emancipate NC Supports Elizabeth City
On April 21, Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. Since that date, Emancipate NC staff members, Board, and Justice...
Emancipate NC Sues Cops On Behalf of Ms. Bottom
In May 2019, a 68-year-old Black woman named Stephanie Bottom was pulled over by officers from the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and the Salisbury...
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Through community education and mobilization, we work to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration in North Carolina. We are also home to the Freedom Fighter Bond Fund that provides bond money and legal defense costs for activists facing arrest and legal jeopardy for causes related to racial, social, gender, economic, and environmental injustice. Your gift today helps us fight for a better, more equitable tomorrow.