Dismantling Structural Racism and Mass Incarceration Across North Carolina
Through community education, narrative shift, and litigation, Emancipate NC supports North Carolina’s people as they free themselves from mass incarceration and structural racism.

Don’t Plead to Weed
Protect your rights. Learn what you need to know about illegal weed and legal hemp at our resource site.

Thrive Tribe
We aim to raise awareness around the injustices and unfairness in the foster care system within our communities. Learn about our work.

Report an Encounter
Were you a victim of a police encounter? Report it on Emancipate NC’s Police Encounter Database!

Raleigh HEART
Get involved in the community-driven initiative to decrease the number of armed police encounters with community members experiencing mental health crises.
Latest News and Updates
Last chance to register for our CLE
Don’t forget to register for our CLE on February 7, all day in Durham. And bring your friends! Register here→
Get Trained on the Family Police
Don’t be fooled by the name–the “child welfare system” is another system with roots in white supremacy and slavery. Emancipate NC’s newest project...
Celebrating Clemency
Phillip Vance Smith, II is an incarcerated man serving Life Without Parole in North Carolina’s state prisons. He is represented by Elizabeth Simpson...
Racist Election Theft Today
The racism and hatred that fueled the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains powerful in the State of North Carolina. Today, we see an example of white...
Emancipate Goes to Wilmington
Dawn Blagrove traveled to Wilmington, NC this week to join a Town Hall for Black citizens to voice their concerns in the current political moment...
Year End Round-Up
Two Emancipate NC clients, represented by Ian Mance, with the investigation assistance of Margaux Lander, had their Life Without Parole sentences...
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Through community education and mobilization, we work to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration in North Carolina. Your gift today helps us fight for a just future.