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Register for the Emancipated CLE
Sign up now and don't miss the opportunity to attend Emancipate NC's second annual continuing legal education conference, The Emancipated CLE 2024. The conference will take place on Friday, February 16th, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the People’s Solidarity...
We Organize To Keep Families Together
On December 13th, Operation Stop CPS, Civil Rights Corps, and Emancipate NC hosted a teach-in at UNC School of Law for community members and impacted parents to learn about the importance of court watching and what to look for in our local Abuse, Neglect, and...
Body Cameras Are Supposed To Provide Transparency
Over the past decade, taxpayers have invested millions of dollars to equip police officers nationwide with body-worn cameras, promising a new era of transparency and accountability. A ProPublica article looks into the reality of this new era – where even when...
2023
2023 was a beast, y'all. Despite that truth, Emancipate NC continues our fight for liberation and freedom from the racist carceral state and the systems and structures that enable and perpetuate it. 2023 has been a year of growth as much as it has been a year filled...
New Opportunities to Engage with Raleigh HEART
The Raleigh HEART Coalition needs your voice now more than ever! The City Manager's Office is asking for community input on our coalition's Alternative Crisis Response Unit proposal from now until March 2024. We need to show the City that Raleigh...
Raleigh Needs Alternative Response!
Reprinted from WNCN: Raleigh Police respond to a wide variety of calls, but should they? The City of Raleigh is developing an alternative response program where police officers wouldn’t show up to all 911 calls. The City Council discussed this at its Nov....
November Report: The H.E.A.R.T. Coalition
The H.E.A.R.T. Coalition has had a big November! At the Nov. 7th Raleigh City Council meeting, the city manager's office presented an update on alternative response programs. The information presented was very much in line with the initial H.E.A.R.T. proposal. ...
Free James Richardson Holiday Rally
Mark your calendars for the Free James Richardson Holiday Rally on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 1:00 pm at the North Carolina Executive Mansion, 298 E Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601. James was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences without parole and has been...
Now is the Time! Rally for Commutation, Community, & Compassion
Join Team Emancipate's Kerwin Pittman, Jaelyn Miller, and Justice League Fellow April Scales Barber, along with our friends at NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on December 2nd from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in Raleigh for a rally demanding immediate...
Take Action for Justice Anita Earls
Commentary by Dawn Blagrove Systemic and institutional racism and many types of mushrooms have a couple of things in common. First, they both grow in the dark. Judge Osteen’s order, denying injunctive relief to Justice Anita Earls related to the thinly veiled public...
A No-Win Situation Revealed
The Assembly and WBTV are doing a three-part investigation into Durham County’s child welfare system. Their second article, No-Win Scenario, features Emancipate NC’s Toia Potts's uphill and unjust battle to fight for her children to return home. Within...
Education Justice Taskforce SRO Group Launches SRO Complaints Webpage
The Education Justice Taskforce, consisting of the Education Justice Alliance, Advancement Project, Emancipate NC, and Legal Aid of NC, has recently launched a new webpage for submitting complaints about misconduct by School Resource Officers (SROs) in North Carolina...
Crucial Win for Trans Rights in North Carolina
Congratulations to Emancipate NC’s client, Ashlee Inscoe! Last week the Wake County Superior Court ordered the North Carolina prison system to transfer Ashlee to a women's prison. This marks the first court order of its kind in the state's history and a step further...
Community Screening of “To Be Invisible”
Presented by Emancipate NC, Operation Stop CPS, and the Movement for Family Power, the new short documentary To Be Invisible by Myah Overstreet screened on October 27th at the People’s Solidarity Hub in Durham, NC. The documentary follows the journeys of Alexis and...
Keeping Families Together Conference
On October 28th, 2023, law students, attorneys, professors, social workers, judges, activists, and impacted parents all gathered for a first-of-its-kind conference about the national crisis in the child welfare system. The conference was a huge success and focused on...