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Report from Poetic Justice 2023

Sep 13, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Events, Mass Incarceration

People listening to poet speak

Team Emancipate enjoyed a beautiful afternoon of poetry, food, and community on September 9, listening to poems from Hausson Byrd, K.y.d Kazi, Chasyn Carter, Sunguh, Nick Courmon, as well as our incarcerated friends, Ashlee Inscoe, Phillip Vance Smith, II, and Chris Ridley. We will share the videos when it is ready to release.

Dawn Blagrove speaking at Poetic Justice
Nick Courmon speaking at Poetic Justice
Poetic Justice attendees posing

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Emancipate NC was founded on the knowledge that mass incarceration and structural racism harm all of us. Prison is state-sponsored violence. We are all complicit in its harms. As an organization, we are dedicated to shifting the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education and mobilization. The mainstream narrative that criminalizes Black and Brown people must be transformed—so that we can all get free.  Emancipate NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and was previously known as the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

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Emancipate NC
PO Box 309
Durham, NC 27702
(919) 682-1149

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