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...