by operations | Jan 4, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Recently, on the Black Light Mass Incarceration Show, Emancipate NC’s Cierra Cobb interviewed April Barber. In 2022, April earned one of the first commutations from Governor Roy Cooper from the Juvenile Sentencing Review Board. April went into prison pregnant at...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 30, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
As 2022 comes to a close, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove responds to the arrest of a student at Winston Salem State University. Please make an end-of-year donation to Emancipate NC to protect Black humanity in North Carolina and keep our mission strong in...
by operations | Dec 15, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image by Amanda Denise, NewsChannel 12. School Resource Officers are supposed to keep students safe — but like most police in this country, they are actually trained to view the very people they are supposed to protect as the enemy. At North Pitt High School in...
by operations | Dec 15, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Photo depicts some of the attendees at a Roundtable event at Duke Law School to discuss “Keeping Families Together in Durham County” held on December 6, 2022. Last month, we reported that Emancipate NC sued the Durham County Department of Social...
by operations | Dec 15, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image by Brett Villena for the Indy Week The Indy Week’s “Trauma and Lawsuits” article on Wednesday profiles two families’ whose homes were wrongfully invaded by Raleigh police using unconstitutionally quick warrant entries. The families are represented...
by operations | Dec 14, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image of Kerwin Pittman being interviewed by ABC11 News For over four years, Emancipate NC has been demanding accountability for misconduct by the Raleigh Police Department. The tragic and all-too-familiar cases ranging from Kyron Hinton in 2018 to Daniel Turcios...
