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Dawn Is On Tour To Get Out The Vote
On September 19, Dawn presented the 2024 Summer Reading Program Lecture at Meredith College. The title of her talk was “Flex Our Citizenship Muscle: Creating a Physically Fit Democracy.” “Voting will not save us. But not voting will doom us,” Dawn said,...
Emancipate NC Congratulates Darryl Howard
Emancipate NC extends its sincere congratulations to Darryl Howard and his legal team, whose decades-long effort to overturn his wrongful conviction and obtain justice from the Durham police officers who caused it finally concluded earlier this summer. The city has...
Emancipate NC Presents: Poetic Justice
Join us and our featured artists: J Bow Performances, Purpose, Aye Jannay, Church The Poet, Hausson Byrd, & Lupe Penn on Saturday, October 5, 2024, 6 pm, 1809 Chapel Hill Road, Durham NC. Tickets available here→ Poetic Justice is an annual fundraiser hosted...
Attorney Blagrove Goes to Washington
As a member of the Black Policy Institute 2023 cohort, Dawn Blagrove attended a Congressional Black Caucus reception hosted by Black Futures Lab, outlining a policy roadmap to improve economic opportunities for our Black communities. Dawn is pictured above with...
Emancipate Asks City Council to Recognize Durham’s Ties to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”
First released as a single 60-years ago this December, soul singer Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” is perhaps the most celebrated and enduring piece of art to emerge from the American Civil Rights Movement. Lesser known, however, is that Cooke wrote the first...
Vigil for Children Taken from Their Homes
Emancipate NC co-hosted with Operation Stop CPS the Community Conversations Townhall last week. We all shared a vigil for children who have been taken by the Durham Department of Social Services and who remain separated from their families. The town hall brought...
“Flex Your Citizenship Muscle: Creating a Physically Fit Democracy”
Propelled by their summer 2024 reading theme, “Strong Voices: Empowering Student Citizenship,” Meredith College promotes civic engagement throughout the fall semester with events and activities. On September 19, at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium, Dawn Blagrove presented...
Paper for the People
Emancipate NC & Durham Beyond Policing are teaming up to support people serving pretrial time in the Durham County Jail with the Paper for the People campaign. We have a goal to raise $25k by December 15th, 2024. In the spirit of the winter holidays, the...
Toia’s Interview on The Private Room Podcast
Emancipate NC’s Toia Potts was interviewed on the podcast The Private Room on Monday September 9th. Toia's children were taken from her by the Durham Department of Social Services for false charges, and they have never taken accountability to...
Experiencing Elections in Prison
Read Emancipate NC client Phillip Vance Smith II’s article about what it is like to experience a U.S. election from prison. Incarcerated people care about elections because they can give us either hope or hopelessness. Criminal disenfranchisement, which traces...
Civilian Review Boards Don’t Work
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, police reform was all the rage. Across the country, Civilian Review Boards were established with the idea that they would hold police accountable and champion transparency. But, most of these boards have limited...
Skillshare for Triangle Healthcare Radicals
On September 12th, Jamie Mariscano and Margaux Lander will provide a skillshare on “Dealing with Child Protective Services: building skills for radical healthcare workers who want to disrupt the family policing system.” This workshop targets healthcare workers...
Civil Rights Commission Wraps Up
On August 23rd, the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights had its fourth panel investigating Civil Rights and the Child Welfare System in North Carolina. The Committee heard testimony in panel form from five impacted individuals who...
Town Hall on Family Policing
Join us for an important discussion on the effects of the Durham County Department of Social Services on our local community. Emancipate NC published the first report on Durham County’s treatment of families impacted by Child Protective Services two years ago in 2022....
Join Us for Poetic Justice!
This year marks our seventh annual Poetic Justice event on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 6 pm. Hausson Byrd returns to curate poets sharing stories of human resilience and beauty in the face of incarceration and state-imposed trauma. That evening, we will hear...