by operations | May 7, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
The police are not broken. They’re doing exactly what they were designed to do: protect property, enforce white supremacy, and crush resistance. For Black people, especially those who understand our struggle through a revolutionary lens, talking to the police is not...
by operations | May 7, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
Join the Child & Family Action Coalition for our next community meeting on Monday, May 19, as we dive into the urgent issue of how cannabis laws are weaponized to surveil families and justify family separation. We’ll share updates on the coalition’s work to...
by operations | May 7, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
In December 2024, Emancipate NC staff attorney Jaelyn Miller secured a major legal victory for Jennique Lopez, a Vance County tenant who was forced to live with her children in appalling, unsafe housing conditions. For more than a year, Ms. Lopez’s landlord ignored...
by operations | May 7, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
“We keep us safe” is a familiar refrain in progressive spaces — and one we hold close at Emancipate NC. Like so many of our partners across North Carolina and beyond, we fight every day — with everything we’ve got — to ensure safety and justice for our communities....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Apr 23, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
The Vance County Jail is under urgent scrutiny after the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) flagged dangerous conditions inside the facility — including malfunctioning fire alarms, broken cell locks, rampant contraband, and severe...
by operations | Apr 23, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age
Commentary by Phillip Vance Smith, II North Carolina lawmakers sponsored the Prison Resources Repurposing Act (PRRA) for the third time as NC Senate Bill 681 on March 25. As an incarcerated man who has been serving life without parole (LWOP) for murder since 2002,...
