by operations | Aug 7, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Events
Welcome to Freedom In the Park! Join us for a day of fun and celebration at Forest Hills Park in Durham. Get ready for music, delicious food, exciting games, and more! Cookout vibes! So please bring your friends and family for a fantastic time outdoors and come...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC’s Dawn Blagrove was quoted in Harpers Bazaar magazine in an article about Violet Affleck’s advocacy on masking. After the Los Angeles mayor proposed a prohibition on masking at political demonstrations, Violet Affleck, daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben...
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...
