by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Join us at Duke Divinity School on November 9, at 6:30 pm, for a panel discussion about issues at the intersection of prison and LGBTQ rights. Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson will join her former client, Amanda Marriner, a formerly-incarcerated...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Last week, Emancipate NC Organizer Dedan Waciuri was acquitted of Resist, Delay, Obstruct misdemeanor charges, in a district court trial in Pitt County, North Carolina. Dedan was represented at trial by Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson, with assistance from UNC...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
With critical midterm elections now less than a week away, Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove has continued her Vote4Justice tour of North Carolina HBCUs. Most recently she spent an evening talking with Shaw University students about the importance of voting –...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League
On October 22, 2022, Kerwin Pittman and Cierra Cobb held the final meeting of the 2022 Justice League cohort. Our Justice League Fellows have done amazing work this year – founding new organizations, mobilizing students, organizing...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
The Irving v. City of Raleigh litigation challenges the Raleigh Police Department’s wrongful and illegal home raid of two innocent Black families. The police had the wrong address and they raided the wrong home, terrorizing children, teens, and adults, as...
