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...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 6, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On Tuesday, September 6, at Randolph Park Drive, Enfield, NC, Mayor Mondale Robinson, Attorney Dawn Blagrove, and Jeremy Collins addressed dangerous threats of domestic terrorism that the Mayor and his community have received from white...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 31, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On August 21, 2022, the mayor of Enfield, NC, Mondale Robinson, took to Facebook Live to capture the bulldozing of a Confederate monument. In an interview with WUNC, he stated: “You know, I think this monument symbolized everything that was slavery in this...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Apr 18, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Community members in Columbia, North Carolina (Tyrrell County) are ready for the offensive and racist Confederate monument at their courthouse to be removed. Emancipate NC joined with Concerned Citizens of Tyrrell County to raise a billboard as a call to action....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC attorney Ian Mance, along with Elizabeth Hambourger, an attorney from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, published an article in Trial Briefs about attorneys’ duty to challenge the racist symbols, including Confederate monuments, in our counties’...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Oct 13, 2021 | Confederate monuments, Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Last week, Kerwin Pittman joined the ACLU of North Carolina and Durham Community Bail Fund on a tour of Confederate monuments in front of North Carolina’s county courthouses. The tour criss-crossed the State of North Carolina to see so many of these reminders of the...
