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...
by operations | Dec 14, 2022 | Emancipate NC News
This month, an Alamance Superior Judge entered an order dismissing the majority of a defamation suit against a Black anti-racist activist, Dejuana Bigelow, and the entirety of a defamation suit against her co-defendant, a white anti-racist activist, Jennifer Love. Ms....
by operations | Nov 22, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Photo by Julia Wall, The News & Observer Earlier this month, Emancipate NC partnered with a pair of local attorneys to file the latest in a series of lawsuits against the City of Graham and law enforcement officials in Alamance County concerning the violation of...
by operations | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Earlier this week, Emancipate’s Kerwin Pittman accepted his reappointment by Governor Cooper to the NC Taskforce for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC). In this role, Kerwin has helped propose much-needed changes to the state’s criminal justice system...
by operations | Nov 22, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Art by Dawn Blagrove Law students at Duke Law School will host a roundtable discussion with Professors Crystal Grant from the Children’s Law Clinic and Allison Korn from the Health Justice Clinic on the importance of family preservation and local...
by operations | Nov 22, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Art by Dawn Blagrove In September, Emancipate NC and Thrive Tribe NC released a comprehensive report on the pressing need for child welfare reform in Durham County. We urged the county to collaborate with all community stakeholders –...
