by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
On June 18, Senior Counsel Ian Mance supported the Concerned Citizens of Tyrrell County in a Juneteenth event calling for the removal of the offensive Confederate Monument in Columbia, NC. NPR reported: “Having this monument in front of our courthouse is...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Commentary By Jeffrey B. Cobb Jeffrey B. Cobb is married to Emancipate NC’s Cierra Cobb. Together, they founded the Care Bear Foundation. Jeffrey is currently incarcerated at Caswell Correctional Institution in Blanch, NC. It seems like the 1950s started this...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On June 19, Director of Policy and Programming Kerwin Pittman celebrated Juneteenth by bailing out two fathers at the Wake County Jail, in collaboration with Emancipate NC’s Freedom Fighter Bond Fund and Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services, Inc. (RREPS)....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Policing
It has been two years since the racial justice protests that roiled our state capital in Summer 2020, following the police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Since then, Emancipate NC has strived to convert that energy into transformation of our dominant...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Elizabeth Simpson The rulers make the rules. When they do, they impose their ideas of “right” and “wrong” on everybody else. That’s why alcohol is legal in North Carolina and weed is not. During Prohibition, as white Southerners brewed illegal moonshine...
