by Holly Blackburn | Nov 8, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On November 1st, 2023, a group consisting of community members, former Vance Monument Task Force Co-Chairs Deborah Miles and Dr. Oralene Simmons, local Vance family descendant Noel Nickle, Emancipate NC’s Community Lawyering...
by Holly Blackburn | Oct 26, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News, Events
Join us in solidarity on Wednesday, November 1st, 2023, to support local and statewide efforts led by Emancipate NC, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty to remove all Confederate monuments in North Carolina....
by Holly Blackburn | Sep 27, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On September 8, 2023, Emancipate NC and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice supported the Move the Monument Coalition by sending a letter to the town of Edenton. The letter asks Edenton to ask the court for a hearing to address the relocation of the...
by operations | Aug 2, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
Community members in Tyrell County invited Jaelyn Miller to attend a county commission meeting in July to urge county commissioners to finally remove their offensive Confederate Monument dedicated to the memory of “faithful slaves.” Jaelyn warned the commission that...
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...
