by operations | Aug 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Events, Mass Incarceration
There’s still time to register for Poetic Justice 2023. Poet-in-Residence Hausson Byrd will curate poetry from inside the prison walls and out. Please join Team Emancipate as we welcome K.y.d Kazi, Chasyn Carter, Sunguh, Nick Courmon, as well as our incarcerated...
by operations | Aug 17, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Events
Join Emancipate NC on Saturday, September 9 at 4:00 pm for the 6th annual Poetic Justice event! Hausson Byrd returns to curate this years event at the People’s Solidarity Hub, 1805 Chapel Hill Road, Durham NC 27707. Emancipate NC has been curating...
by operations | Aug 17, 2023 | Ending the Death Penalty, Events
On Saturday, August 19th, join North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on the 17th anniversary of NC’s last execution to demand a future with no more death row. The group will gather at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church for a short program...
by operations | Aug 2, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing, Raising the Juvenile Age
In a cruel and inhumane overreach, District Attorney Travis Page of Gaston County charged a 15-year-old child with Attempted Murder for defending his twin brother from police violence. La’Dainian Fuller, who was only 15-years-old at the time of the incident, placed a...
by operations | Aug 2, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
On December 7, 2022, Alamance County Sheriff’s department abused and injured a 60-year-old Black grandmother, Elinor Blackwell, during a traffic stop. The reason for the stop? She was driving too slow on the highway when it was dark and raining outside. After being...
