by operations | Mar 12, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
Laura Saavedra Forero, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill and a well-known campus activist, participated in a constitutionally protected protest last fall. As a wheelchair user, she is easily identifiable in a crowd. Following the protest, UNC...
by operations | Mar 12, 2025 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
The fight to remove a racist Confederate monument—the one dedicated to “Our Faithful Slaves”—continues in Columbia (Tyrrell County), North Carolina. Emancipate NC represents a group of Black citizens demanding an end to this offensive government-sanctioned display. At...
by operations | Mar 12, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would impose strict new voter registration requirements, including a mandate for registrants to present documents proving U.S. citizenship. However, tens of millions of Americans lack easy access to such documents,...
by operations | Mar 12, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Muslim Advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s continued punishment of individuals involved in last spring’s peaceful pro-Palestine encampment....
by operations | Feb 26, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
Last week, the American Constitution Society invited Dawn Blagrove to participate in their panel, “Who’s to Judge? Protecting the Legitimacy of State Courts,” alongside Robyn Sanders, Robert Yablon, and Zack Gima. The group discussed what steps can be taken to protect...
by operations | Feb 26, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
As you heard in the last newsletter, Kerwin Pittman’s Mobile Recidivism Reduction Center launched and is operating out of a renovated bus that he and seven other formerly incarcerated people gutted and renovated together. “Having to come [back] into...
