by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Last week, the INDY Week covered our $350,000 settlement with the City of Raleigh in litigation about a wrongful home raid executed against Yolanda Irving and Kenya Walton and their families: During the 16 months the case was fought in civil court, lawyers...
by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
In October 2021 and in December 2022, we covered developments in an Alamance County defamation suit against a Black anti-racist activist, Dejuana Bigelow, and the role that Emancipate NC has played in the case over time. Last week, Ms. Bigelow and her attorneys, Erika...
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...
