by operations | Oct 2, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Events
On September 19, Dawn presented the 2024 Summer Reading Program Lecture at Meredith College. The title of her talk was “Flex Our Citizenship Muscle: Creating a Physically Fit Democracy.” “Voting will not save us. But not voting will doom us,” Dawn said,...
by operations | Oct 2, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC extends its sincere congratulations to Darryl Howard and his legal team, whose decades-long effort to overturn his wrongful conviction and obtain justice from the Durham police officers who caused it finally concluded earlier this summer. The city has...
by operations | Oct 2, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Events
Join us and our featured artists: J Bow Performances, Purpose, Aye Jannay, Church The Poet, Hausson Byrd, & Lupe Penn on Saturday, October 5, 2024, 6 pm, 1809 Chapel Hill Road, Durham NC. Tickets available here→ Poetic Justice is an annual fundraiser hosted...
by operations | Sep 18, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
As a member of the Black Policy Institute 2023 cohort, Dawn Blagrove attended a Congressional Black Caucus reception hosted by Black Futures Lab, outlining a policy roadmap to improve economic opportunities for our Black communities. Dawn is pictured above with...
by operations | Sep 18, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
First released as a single 60-years ago this December, soul singer Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” is perhaps the most celebrated and enduring piece of art to emerge from the American Civil Rights Movement. Lesser known, however, is that Cooke wrote the first...
by operations | Sep 18, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Emancipate NC co-hosted with Operation Stop CPS the Community Conversations Townhall last week. We all shared a vigil for children who have been taken by the Durham Department of Social Services and who remain separated from their families. The town hall brought...
