by operations | Apr 13, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On April 21, 6:00 – 7:30pm, at the Duke University Divinity School, join Emancipate’s Elizabeth Simpson for State-Sponsored Torture: An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Solitary Confinement. The event will feature Elizabeth along with an excellent slate...
by operations | Mar 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
Art by Dawn Blagrove In today’s political conditions, North Carolina’s women face myriad issues. At their Moving Forward Together event, Wake Dems convened three speakers for Women’s History Month to share about their experience and work confronting these issues in...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Durham Beyond Policing and the Have a Heart coalition have been leading the fight for an expanded, fully-funded Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team (HEART) in Durham’s city budget this year. Before the city’s public budget hearing this month, the campaign...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
The Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan and Emancipate NC have been fighting for over a year to have the town of Edenton take down its Confederate monument once and for all. Members of the coalition protest weekly in front of the monument to name the harm...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On April 13, 10:00am – 4:00pm, at Shaw University, come and learn why Confederate monuments are not harmless relics of the past. Emancipate NC is co-sponsoring this symposium with the NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System...
by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Image source: ABC 11 News In a recent press conference at Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC, national civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove demanded the federal government seek justice without delay for Shanquella Robinson, a...
