by operations | Jun 22, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
We wrote in our last newsletter about the significance of Black activist Dejuana Bigelow’s legal victory in a defamation case brought against her by a Confederate monument supporter. That significance was not lost on the pro-justice community of Alamance County. In a...
by operations | Apr 27, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
Photo credit: The Carolinian Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove moderated a panel on the Consequences of Confederate Monument Removal earlier this month. The panel discussion explored the real risks and challenges that our people face as they work to take down racist...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
The Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan and Emancipate NC have been fighting for over a year to have the town of Edenton take down its Confederate monument once and for all. Members of the coalition protest weekly in front of the monument to name the harm...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On April 13, 10:00am – 4:00pm, at Shaw University, come and learn why Confederate monuments are not harmless relics of the past. Emancipate NC is co-sponsoring this symposium with the NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System...
by operations | Feb 2, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
Even when the long shadow of structural racism and white supremacy falls more quietly upon Black and brown communities, it is still harmful. The Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan has been fighting to remove a Confederate monument in Edenton, NC, one of the...
by operations | Oct 18, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
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...
