by Mandie Sellars | Sep 30, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
The 2004 story of Malaika Brooks is a powerful look at exactly why we need to get rid of qualified immunity for police...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 25, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director In 1997, Tilmon Golphin was a 19-year-old child. (Above, Tilmon Golphin’s uncle holds a childhood photo of Tilmon and his family). No different from the ones parents cry over as they leave for college. Friends and family use words...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League
NJJN Membership Advisory Council Member Jorren Biggs talks with Emancipate NC’s Justice Fellow Aneesha Tucker and California Youth Activist and Policy Organizer Ronaldo Villeda about the election, innovation, and imagining safer spaces for...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
COVID-19 has spread rampantly through North Carolina’s state prisons, leaving thousands of incarcerated people infected and 12 dead. Still, NC Governor Roy Cooper has not commuted a single sentence during his 4-year term, and more than 2,000 who’ve completed their...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 11, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In their series “Calling for Change,” WUNC has been talking with North Carolinians who are advocating for major changes in policing. On September 10, they interviewed Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman about his life and what drives him in the fight for...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 2, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
It has been three months since George Floyd protests began in North Carolina, and Emancipate NC has worked tirelessly to connect anti-racist protestors arrested to volunteer attorneys across the state. North Carolina has seen protests in almost 100 communities across...
