by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dedan Waciuri “Afro-Americans are more sinned against than sinning” ~ Ida B Wells “A woman was lynched today” is what the headlines would have read if Ida B. Wells was still around to articulate the current lynching of Sonya Massey, whose life was...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
This year, after mounting pressure from activists, the N.C. Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating civil rights violations in the family regulation system. Alongside coalition partners, Emancipate NC’s Margaux...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dawn Blagrove When people who actually care about free and fair elections called the wave of election law changes in North Carolina voter suppression, conservatives and election deniers clutched their proverbial pearls and cried that they were being...
by operations | Jun 27, 2024 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
Dawn Blagrove commented on Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s decision to pardon more than 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions: “It’s also common sense,” Blagrove told NC Newsline this week. “It’s time that we really allow our laws to catch up with the morals and values of...
by operations | Jun 27, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Raising the Juvenile Age
HB 834’s veto by Governor Cooper is extremely concerning legislation that would automatically transfer 16-and-17-year-olds charged with felony cases to be tried in adult court rather than the juvenile system. Dawn Blagrove was quoted by 11 Eyewitness News:...
by operations | Jun 27, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Events
Emancipate NC joined NC Now and ERA-NC Alliance on Monday 24th for the Dreadful Dobbs Decision Day Rally, commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the deadly Dobbs v Jackson Supreme Court Decision which undid the Roe v Wade decision that safeguarded the right to safe and...
