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Emancipate NC Wins $100,000 Settlement From New Bern Police
City pays $100,000 to 10-year-old autistic child and his mother to resolve lawsuit The City of New Bern has made significant revisions to its policies governing involuntary commitments (IVCs) and agreed to pay $100,000 to a 10-year-old child and his mother who were...
We Are Who We Have Been Waiting For
Dear Friends: We are truly in our feelings at Emancipate NC. The worst scenario has come to pass. The majority of our countrymen chose to abandon democracy and embrace hate. We cannot be afraid to say the truth aloud. Those who want to see us disappear are not...
Toia Potts Continues Her Fight for the Rights of All Parents
Over the summer Toia Potts testified to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for North Carolina about her unjust experiences in the child welfare system. Yesterday, one commissioner, Gregory Wallace, spoke up about her case to discount her, stating that the termination...
Dawn Teaches Teens to Know Their Electoral Rights
Throughout this election season, Dawn Blagrove has toured North Carolina to train residents on their rights in the electoral system. Last week, Dawn spoke to a group of teens and parents at Jack and Jill of America Capital City Chapter. The stakes for this election...
Accountability for Demoted Officer D.C. Twiddy
What does it take for a city to hold its own accountable? On Friday, Oct 25, Emancipate NC held a press conference in response to the demotion of RPD Officer Twiddy who had a long and problematic track record with the Black community. Because of NC laws denying...
Emancipate NC Introduces: Carolina Parent Defenders
Over the past three years, Emancipate NC has become a statewide leader in advocacy around the family policing system and Child Protective Services (CPS). In 2022, Elizabeth Simpson and J Hallen authored a report urging county-level reforms to the Durham Department of...
Emancipate NC Responds to Hurricane Helene
About a month after Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, the region remains in acute distress. People in prison were also impacted; four North Carolina prisons are located in hard-hit areas, including Western Correctional for Women, Avery Mitchell...
We Got Free in the Park!
It was a beautiful day in Durham when we celebrated community self-determination and freedom with our friends at Operation Stop CPS a few weeks ago. Check out the photos!
Donate! Paper for the People Campaign
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 donations...
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...