Community Conversations

Community Conversations

On April 11, Raleigh PACT, SOS Agency, and Emancipate NC co-sponsored a Community Conversation on Modern Day Lynching. Dr. Kimberly Muktarian shared the connections between the racial terror of lynchings and the modern racial terror of state-sanctioned police...
Sharing Power Moves Us Forward

Sharing Power Moves Us Forward

Emancipate NC Board member Kristie Puckett and Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson traveled to Yale Law School to the Arthur Liman Conference on public health and incarceration this month. Elizabeth was a Liman Fellow in North Carolina...
Four Twenty

Four Twenty

As 4/20 approaches, Emancipate NC reminds you not to plead guilty to possession of marijuana! Make the State prove their case! If you are near Greenville or Charlotte this weekend, come out for our 4/20 events. Team Emancipate will host Don’t Plead to Weed...
Hearing on the NC Racial Justice Act

Hearing on the NC Racial Justice Act

Last month, a North Carolina Superior Court judge heard testimony on a historic trial under the Racial Justice Act about the history and inherent racial discrimination in the State’s administration of the death penalty. The trial will determine the future...
Judge Blocks Transparency

Judge Blocks Transparency

Last week, two UNC Law students, Morgan Schriner and Jack Salt, argued for public release of the body camera footage of a Raleigh Police Department “Quick Knock” warrant execution on the home of the Abbouds, innocent civilians who were victims of...
Charges Dismissed!

Charges Dismissed!

Emancipate NC attorney Jaelyn Miller successfully represented a Black man who was unjustly charged with “Resisting a Public Official.” Last week, his charges were dismissed by the Wake County District Attorney’s Office! In December 2023, the client was out...