by Mandie Sellars | Sep 11, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In their series “Calling for Change,” WUNC has been talking with North Carolinians who are advocating for major changes in policing. On September 10, they interviewed Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman about his life and what drives him in the fight for...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 2, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
It has been three months since George Floyd protests began in North Carolina, and Emancipate NC has worked tirelessly to connect anti-racist protestors arrested to volunteer attorneys across the state. North Carolina has seen protests in almost 100 communities across...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 30, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League
by Kyla Holton, Emancipate NC Justice League Fellow and senior at Garner Magnet High School I can so vividly remember the first protest that truly caught my eye while I experienced watching it on T.V. It was 2016, right after Donald Trump was elected as the U.S...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 29, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On August 28, close to 1,000 people marched through downtown Raleigh, up Fayetteville Street from the Wake County Justice Center to the State Capitol. The protest comes days after Jacob Blake, a Black man in Wisconsin, was left paralyzed after a police officer shot...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 29, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
In June, Emancipate NC joined with ACLU of North Carolina, Disability Rights North Carolina, Forward Justice, and the National Juvenile Justice Network, filed a lawsuit demanding better protection for incarcerated people from COVID-19. The lawsuit asserted that the...
