by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Events, Family Regulation
The Family Policing (“child welfare”) System tears families apart rather than providing them the resources they need to thrive. It’s time to build the power of families struggling against this system. Next Friday, June 16, at 12:00pm, Emancipate...
by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
James Lanier, a Black man, was unarmed, unclothed, and suffering from a mental health crisis when he was tased, shot, and killed by police in February outside a mini mart in his hometown of Wallace, NC. Lanier had struggled with schizophrenia from a young age; police...
by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Have you shared and subscribed to the Black Light Mass Incarceration Show yet? Host Cierra Cobb is dropping new episodes every Thursday full of intimate, earnest, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories. From the 17-year-old convicted for decades on...
by operations | May 25, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
On Wednesday, Team Emancipate met with attorneys from the Civil Rights Section of the United States Department of Justice. USDOJ agreed to meet with us after we sent a letter detailing systematic constitutional violations by the Raleigh Police Department (RPD). ...
by operations | May 25, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
When Mrs. Priscilla Smith shared the story of how the Durham Department of Social Services (DSS) mistreated her family, it inspired several others to come forward. Three additional individuals have offered their own painfully similar accounts of how Durham DSS and the...
