by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 3, 2021 | Emancipate NC News
CHARLOTTE — Emancipate North Carolina, and the North Carolina Black & Brown Policy Network released the following statement ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visiting North Carolina tomorrow: “In...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman was featured in a televised debate on police reform at Wake Technical Community College last week. He was joined by Senator Amy Scott Galey (R, Alamance), Senator Mejtaba Mohammed (D, Mecklenburg),...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Earlier this year, Emancipate NC submitted an amicus brief, authored by Dawn Blagrove and Ian Mance, to educate the North Carolina Supreme Court about the racial justice consequences of Juvenile Life Without Parole. On Wednesday,...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Oct 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Photo depicts Lester Kearney’s family, along with Advocate Cierra Cobb, outside of the Warren County Courthouse in October 2021. Lester Kearney is an innocent Black man facing the death penalty in Warren County, North Carolina for the 2018 murder of an elderly...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Oct 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Personal commentary by Elizabeth Simpson If it wasn’t heartbreaking, it would be funny. Two weeks ago, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, through its unironically named research unit, the “Innovation Institute,” concluded: there is a body of...
