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Emancipate NC Protects the Right to Protest
Emancipate NC, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Muslim Advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s continued punishment of individuals involved in last spring’s peaceful pro-Palestine encampment....
Judicial Panel
Last week, the American Constitution Society invited Dawn Blagrove to participate in their panel, “Who’s to Judge? Protecting the Legitimacy of State Courts,” alongside Robyn Sanders, Robert Yablon, and Zack Gima. The group discussed what steps can be taken to protect...
Mobile Recidivism Reduction Center
As you heard in the last newsletter, Kerwin Pittman’s Mobile Recidivism Reduction Center launched and is operating out of a renovated bus that he and seven other formerly incarcerated people gutted and renovated together. “Having to come [back] into...
Sticky Note Conversations
Listen to the latest episode on Erika Washington’s podcast. She interviews Dawn Blagrove, and they discuss the fight against systemic racism, the importance of abolition, and the need for Black communities to become self-sustaining. Dawn discusses her...
Defending Organizers in Court
Emancipate NC secured a significant victory in Wake County District Court last week, as all charges were dismissed against union organizers who were unlawfully removed from Amazon’s worksite in December. The pair were represented by Dillon Sharpe. On...
Stopping the Real Steal
Dawn Blagrove spoke to a crowd of hundreds gathered in Raleigh, NC last week to protest the baseless challenge to Allison Riggs’s North Carolina Supreme Court seat. Working with Common Cause, ACLU of NC, Forward Justice, and...
Defending Worker Organizing
For five years, Emancipate NC has held down defense of protesters, activists, and organizers in North Carolina. Our newest attorney, Dillon Sharpe, heads to court in Wake County next week, defending an Amazon worker and an organizer both charged with trespassing...
The Emancipated CLE 2025 was a success!
Thanks to everyone who came! Come again next year!
DCo Thrives
Durham County introduces DCo Thrives, a program to provide cash assistance to low-income families in Durham County. DCo Thrives will provide no-strings-attached payments to 125 randomly selected individuals with a child under the age of 18 living with them on a full-...
Radio Free NC
In a world that is always changing at an accelerating pace yet sticking to age-old structures and systems, the Radio Free NC Pod seeks to facilitate casual conscious conversation around a variety of cultural topics to bring folks together and help sow new seeds in the...
Unity Town Hall
The Black citizens of Wilmington know the storm that is coming, and they are gearing up. Later this month, Dawn Blagrove will return to Wilmington to train people on the origin and function of the Electoral College, the 14th Amendment, Trump’s executive...
Support on Wheels
Last November, Kerwin Pittman drove hours to Peachland, North Carolina — a town in Anson County — to buy a bus. On the drive back to Raleigh, he said, he was just hoping it wouldn’t break down. After all, he had a big dream for it. Three months later, he has...
We Protect Democracy
As you know, sore loser candidate Jefferson Griffin is demanding that the court do the unthinkable: throw away the lawful votes of 60,000 North Carolinians and overturn his loss in the 2024 state Supreme Court election. Griffin’s scheme is dangerous, disingenuous, and...
Last chance to register for our CLE
Don’t forget to register for our CLE on February 7, all day in Durham. And bring your friends! Register here→
Get Trained on the Family Police
Don’t be fooled by the name–the “child welfare system” is another system with roots in white supremacy and slavery. Emancipate NC’s newest project is the Carolina Parent Defenders. We will be the first organization dedicated to representing parents who have been...