by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Policing
Photo credit: Simone Hogan / Shutterstock.com Emancipate NC is an organization working on behalf of Black and Brown North Carolinians directly impacted by systemic racism and insufferable injustice. The undersigned strongly oppose SB 100. We write to oppose the...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Direct link to the reports released by the Town of Apex At the request of multiple Apex citizens at Tuesday’s town council meeting, the Town of Apex leadership made the prudent decision to release a series of organizational climate assessment reports, conducted over...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 22, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing, Uncategorized
Photo credits: Jade Wilson By Aneesha Tucker, Emancipate NC Intern On January 30, 2021, Fuquay-Varina Police unreasonably handcuffed and detained Malcolm Zigler, a 14 year old Black boy, for “stealing” a dirt bike that he purchased. Zigler started working on dirt...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Uncategorized
In a series of demonstrations spurred initially by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, some twenty million Americans took to the streets over the past year in mass mobilizations for racial justice, historic expressions of public grief and anger...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
This image, depicting Durham’s COVID motel, the Quality Inn, was borrowed from the Indy Week. The photographer is Jade Wilson. By Aneesha Tucker, Emancipate NC Intern On January 22, 2021, the News and Observer reported that North Carolina prisons planned to...
