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
New Toolkit: Complaints Against School Resource Officers
Emancipate NC has teamed up with Legal Aid, Advancement Project, and the Education Justice Initiative to provide a toolkit to support parents and...
The Assembly Covers “The Smell Test”
Photo Credit Cornell Watson for The Assembly The Assembly quoted an Emancipate NC amicus brief written by Elizabeth...
Towards Abolishing Family Policing
On April 19, 2024, Dawn served as a panelist on “Nurturing Freedom Dreams through Abolition” at the University of Miami School of Law, and argued...
More Second Chances, Please!
By April Barber Scales (Justice League Fellow) and Anthony Willis We have been free — out of prison — for two years. If you had asked us five years...
Reentry Just Got a Little Smoother
REPS (Recidivism Reduction Education Program Services) launched a hotline on Monday, April 29, 2024, which connects callers with a live agent who...
Lawyering From the Heart
Profile by Storey Wertheimer Jatoia Potts had just spent eight months behind bars for an abuse and neglect charge she vehemently denied. Even after...
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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.