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Duke Law Students Host Roundtable on Child Welfare Reform

Duke Law Students Host Roundtable on Child Welfare Reform

Art by Dawn Blagrove Law students at Duke Law School will host a roundtable discussion with Professors Crystal Grant from the Children’s Law Clinic and Allison Korn from the Health Justice Clinic on the importance of family preservation and local...

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Raleigh PD’s Draft De-Escalation Policy Falls Short

Raleigh PD’s Draft De-Escalation Policy Falls Short

Artist unknown During the summer, the Raleigh Police Department (RPD) launched a “listening tour” as part of its announcement that it would be adopting its first de-escalation policy. This announcement came in response to strong community pressure. Persistent...

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Emancipate NC: The CLE Seminar

Emancipate NC: The CLE Seminar

Emancipate NC is excited to bring you a highly-demanded Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar to kick off the new year. Sliding scale for attorneys and free for students! Join us on Friday, January 20, 2023, from 9:30am - 4:00pm for Lawyering in Service of...

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Upcoming Event: Behind Closets and Bars

Upcoming Event: Behind Closets and Bars

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...

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Dedan Is Acquitted

Dedan Is Acquitted

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...

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Dawn’s Vote4Justice Tour Continues at Shaw University

Dawn’s Vote4Justice Tour Continues at Shaw University

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 –...

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Congratulations to the Justice League 2022!

Congratulations to the Justice League 2022!

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...

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Raleigh Seeks To Block Deposition of Police Chief

Raleigh Seeks To Block Deposition of Police Chief

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...

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Emancipate NC Goes to NAMI Conference

Emancipate NC Goes to NAMI Conference

At the annual National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) North Carolina conference, Cierra Cobb led a workshop on mental health in prisons. Unfortunately, prisons are unprepared to meet the mental health challenges of incarcerated people. The mental load of...

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Register Now for Abortion Criminalization Webinar

Register Now for Abortion Criminalization Webinar

As abortion bans and restrictions are rushed into place across the country, what does it mean for patients, providers, and advocates who now may be charged with providing, assisting, or obtaining an abortion? What happens when vague laws and emergency situations...

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Tyrrell County: Remove the “Faithful Slaves” Monument

Tyrrell County: Remove the “Faithful Slaves” Monument

For the past year, Emancipate NC has worked to support the efforts of the Concerned Citizens of Tyrrell County, an organization of Black community members in North Carolina’s smallest county by population, located in the northeastern part of the state. Since 2020, the...

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