by operations | May 21, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
On May 16, 2025, Emancipate NC Attorney Dillon Sharpe successfully defended an Amazon labor organizer who had been arrested at Amazon RDU1 by the Garner Police Department earlier this year. Our client, a ranking member of the Amazon Labor...
by operations | May 21, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
On May 14, 2025, Emancipate NC Attorney Dillon Sharpe secured another win for a Don’t Plead to Weed client in Wake County District Court. Our client was pulled over for driving slightly below the speed limit. She cooperated fully and answered...
by operations | May 21, 2025 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
In a ground-breaking win for Equal Protection, a U.S. district judge, James Denver III, ruled that Black residents of Tyrrell County may proceed with their lawsuit to remove the Confederate monument in front of their courthouse. The County tried to dismiss the...
by operations | May 21, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
On May 19, 2025, the Child and Family Action Coalition hosted a powerful community forum focused on Cannabis Reform — highlighting how current cannabis laws are harming Black and Brown families across North Carolina. The conversation, led...
by operations | May 21, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
This week, Emancipate NC traveled to the Bahama Ruritan Club to attend a town hall held by Durham County Sheriff Clarence Birkhead. Despite repeated requests from community leaders to hold public dialogue in central Durham, the Sheriff chose instead to speak in Bahama...
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...
