by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 11, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Reprinted from WNCN: Raleigh Police respond to a wide variety of calls, but should they? The City of Raleigh is developing an alternative response program where police officers wouldn’t show up to all 911 calls. The City Council discussed this at its Nov....
by operations | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
The H.E.A.R.T. Coalition has had a big November! At the Nov. 7th Raleigh City Council meeting, the city manager’s office presented an update on alternative response programs. The information presented was very much in line with the initial H.E.A.R.T....
by operations | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
Mark your calendars for the Free James Richardson Holiday Rally on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 1:00 pm at the North Carolina Executive Mansion, 298 E Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601. James was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences without parole and has been...
by operations | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty, Events
Join Team Emancipate’s Kerwin Pittman, Jaelyn Miller, and Justice League Fellow April Scales Barber, along with our friends at NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on December 2nd from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in Raleigh for a rally demanding immediate...
by operations | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dawn Blagrove Systemic and institutional racism and many types of mushrooms have a couple of things in common. First, they both grow in the dark. Judge Osteen’s order, denying injunctive relief to Justice Anita Earls related to the thinly veiled public...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
The Assembly and WBTV are doing a three-part investigation into Durham County’s child welfare system. Their second article, No-Win Scenario, features Emancipate NC’s Toia Potts’s uphill and unjust battle to fight for her children to return home....
