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Beyond Executions: Remembering 43 Lost & Creating a Future Without Death Row
On Saturday, August 19th, join North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on the 17th anniversary of NC's last execution to demand a future with no more death row. The group will gather at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church for a short program &...
Emancipate Exhorts Gaston Courts: Children are Different!
In a cruel and inhumane overreach, District Attorney Travis Page of Gaston County charged a 15-year-old child with Attempted Murder for defending his twin brother from police violence. La’Dainian Fuller, who was only 15-years-old at the time of the incident, placed a...
Emancipate Joins Alamance Community to Demand Accountability
On December 7, 2022, Alamance County Sheriff’s department abused and injured a 60-year-old Black grandmother, Elinor Blackwell, during a traffic stop. The reason for the stop? She was driving too slow on the highway when it was dark and raining outside. After being...
Time’s Up Tyrell: Remove the “Faithful Slaves” Monument
Community members in Tyrell County invited Jaelyn Miller to attend a county commission meeting in July to urge county commissioners to finally remove their offensive Confederate Monument dedicated to the memory of “faithful slaves.” Jaelyn warned the commission that...
Wallace NC Gathers to Mourn and Demand Transformation
Dedan Wacuiri traveled to Wallace, NC (Duplin County) last month to assist community members with a Community Conversation about policing. Wallace Police shot and killed James Lanier earlier this year, in the midst of a mental health crisis. Community members...
Emancipate Joins Raleigh PACT for Community Canvass
In July, Dawn Blagrove and Kerwin Pittman joined with Raleigh PACT for a community canvass event in Southeast Raleigh. Raleigh PACT is led by Dr. Kimberly Muktarian. At the event, Team Emancipate served the community by providing food, drinks, COVID safety supplies,...
PBS NewsHour Covers Darryl Tyree Williams
On Monday evening, PBS NewsHour aired a national special on the danger of Taser weapons in the hands of police. Highlighting the story of Darryl Tyree Williams, and featuring the voices of his mother, Sonya Williams, and Dawn Blagrove, the story raises concerns that...
Update on the Raleigh HEART Campaign
Stories like that of Darryl Tyree Williams are why we’re fighting to bring unarmed crisis response to Raleigh. What if Raleigh had HEART? Here are some updates from the campaign the past 2 weeks! Last week, Jaelyn Miller and Kerwin Pittman met with Raleigh City...
Update on the Family Defenders Project
Last week, Toia Potts presented the final proposal for transforming foster care and the abuse/neglect/dependency courtroom to the Durham Safety and Wellness Taskforce. The proposal is designed to ensure Durham County’s A/N/D courtroom and child welfare system respect...
Join Us in Greenville on July 29
Team Emancipate will celebrate this year’s wins with a block party across the street from 912 W 5th Street, Greenville, NC on July 29 from 3-8 pm. Please join us at this family friendly event, with bounce house, music, and refreshments. We’ll have information...
Join Us for Mental Health Awareness!
On Saturday, July 22, from 11-3 pm, Cierra Cobb will join partners from I Will Survive, Fulton County BHDD, Anthem-Elevance Health, and Dragon Boat Atlanta, for an online event to raise awareness about mental health for “National Minority Mental Health Awareness...
Vote 4 Justice Heads to Goldsboro
Last week, Dawn Blagrove traveled to Goldsboro, NC to give a Vote 4 Justice training to community members. This is part of our continuous voter education work to ensure everyone knows the powers and the responsibilities of all the actors in our criminal legal system,...
Dawn Speaks to Gary Jones Show
Earlier this month, Dawn Blagrove spoke to the Gary Jones Show about the police murder of Darryl Tyree Williams, systemic racism, white supremacy, law enforcement, and more. We will keep spreading the message that police violence is not inevitable. It is a product of...
Phillip V. Smith on CRIMINAL Podcast
Phillip Vance Smith, II, is a long-time friend of Emancipate NC. Last week, he was featured in a fascinating episode of the popular and award-winning podcast, CRIMINAL, about prison newspapers. Phillip is the editor of the Nash News, one of only 26 surviving prison...
Team Emancipate Goes Deep on RPD’s “Quick Knock” Abuses
In May, Team Emancipate met with attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice to urge them to open an investigation into the Raleigh Police Department. RPD’s ongoing practices violate the civil rights of residents on a regular basis. As the USDOJ Civil Rights...