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“Female Locked Up In Male Prison” — Catch the Latest from the Black Light Podcast
Ashlee Inscoe has long identified as female, despite people trying to gender her as male since childhood. The State of North Carolina has been no different. Ashlee is incarcerated and intersex. Even having now received gender-affirming surgery, the Department of...
Dawn at CLE on Race, Self-Defense and Law Enforcement
It’s not too late to register to join the North Carolina Advocates for Justice CLE on defense of self and others. In-person and virtual registration for the event tomorrow, Friday, March 17, in Raleigh is available for those interested in learning about the latest...
DSS Forced To Re-Prioritize Kinship Care for Disabled Kids
Image: DSS Board Chair and Durham County Commissioner Wendy Jacobs during Monday's commission meeting At the Durham Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting this past Monday, DSS Assistant Director of Child & Family Services Jovetta Whitfield presented a new...
Black Safety 365 Panel
On January 10, 2023, five Black police officers beat and subsequently murdered Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee. Since that tragic day, our communities have offered reactions, responses, and questions about whether or not this police murder is different because the...
Now in Stock: Don’t Plead to Weed T-Shirts!
Want to look great and help people know their rights? We’ve got the swag for you! Head to the Emancipate NC online store now and grab one of our new Don’t Plead to Weed tees. The Don’t Plead to Weed campaign is backed by lawyers and the notion that people don’t...
Emancipate’s Dedan and Jaelyn Detained by Court Sheriff for… Drinking Coffee
Last Monday morning, Team Emancipate’s Dedan Waciuri and Jaelyn Miller sat together in the Greenville, NC, Pitt County courthouse. They were there for our Don’t Plead to Weed (DPW) campaign. To quote Dedan, the Pitt County judges pass out criminal convictions for...
Dawn Receives Award from Color of Change
Join the rest of Team Emancipate in congratulating Executive Director Dawn Blagrove on receiving the Consider It Done award this month from Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization! Color of Change hosted the Black History Now awards in...
Emancipate Files Against Summary Judgment in Bottom Case of Police Excessive Force
For more than a year, Emancipate NC’s Ian Mance has been working on a case involving yet another excessive use of force by police, this time in Salisbury, NC. Stephanie Bottom, a 67-year-old Black woman who works as a public librarian, was driving from her home in...
Application Closing Soon! Apply Now for 2023 Justice League Cohort
Emancipate NC mobilizes and trains youth and justice-impacted people of all ages in a fellowship program called the Justice League. We are currently seeking nominations of formerly-incarcerated people, justice-impacted people, and youth impacted by incarceration to...
Toia’s Fight to Reunite Her Family Builds Steam
Even in a system that has already done so much harm to Toia Potts’ family, DSS illegally directing the clerk of court not to file adoption petitions on behalf of her children’s biological kin still seemed almost unbelievable. And yet these actions were exactly what...
Emancipate NC and Ben Crump Join to Denounce RPD’s Murder of Darryl Williams
Team Emancipate and the rest of the Raleigh Demands Justice coalition have been calling for accountability and the implementation of our six demands since Raleigh PD murdered Darryl Williams. Last month, we welcomed reinforcements to this fight in the form of attorney...
Toia Potts Interviewed on WBTV Charlotte
For Team Emancipate, the work to transform “child welfare” is personal. It is shaped by the experiences of Toia Potts, a grieving mother and Emancipate’s newest organizer. Durham’s family policing system terminated her parental rights for two boys after she spent...
Durham DSS Slow to Reunify Kids with Families
Last month, we shared our first set of infographics to visualize data from the Durham Department of Social Services. Our latest findings reinforce Toia's personal experience: as we continue to review the public records – which DSS denied to us until we sued them under...
Catch the Latest from Black Light Mass Incarceration Show
Don’t miss the latest episode from Emancipate’s Black Light Mass Incarceration Show, “The Life of a Lifer.” From education to mental health, hosts Cierra and Jeffrey Cobb – plus a special guest – break down what life is like for individuals facing...
Join a Virtual Listening Session on the Harms of Solitary Confinement
On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, from 7pm - 8pm, Emancipate NC and other groups in the End SolitaryNC Coalition will co-host a virtual listening session via Zoom to discuss and help raise awareness about the harms caused by exposure to solitary confinement...