by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Article by Phillip Vance Smith, II, published in Bolts Magazine After I served 14 months in prison for petty crimes, the state of North Carolina released me into homelessness on Dec. 30, 2000 with only the prison clothes on my back, a paper identification card, and...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dedan Waciuri “Afro-Americans are more sinned against than sinning” ~ Ida B Wells “A woman was lynched today” is what the headlines would have read if Ida B. Wells was still around to articulate the current lynching of Sonya Massey, whose life was...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
This year, after mounting pressure from activists, the N.C. Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating civil rights violations in the family regulation system. Alongside coalition partners, Emancipate NC’s Margaux...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dawn Blagrove When people who actually care about free and fair elections called the wave of election law changes in North Carolina voter suppression, conservatives and election deniers clutched their proverbial pearls and cried that they were being...
by operations | Jun 27, 2024 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
Dawn Blagrove commented on Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s decision to pardon more than 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions: “It’s also common sense,” Blagrove told NC Newsline this week. “It’s time that we really allow our laws to catch up with the morals and values of...
