by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 31, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
For three years, Emancipate NC has partnered with the NAACP of Wilson County and the Community Alliance for Public Education (CAPE) on a project to reduce child trauma by reducing pretrial incarceration of caregivers in Wilson County, NC. This project is supported by...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 31, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Last week, Dawn Blagrove traveled to Akron, Ohio for a Week of Action as part of Emancipate NC’s membership in the Black Freedom Collective, a project of Community Change. The Week of Action honored the memory of Jayland Walker, who was murdered by police during a...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 31, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Emancipate NC News
On August 21, 2022, the mayor of Enfield, NC, Mondale Robinson, took to Facebook Live to capture the bulldozing of a Confederate monument. In an interview with WUNC, he stated: “You know, I think this monument symbolized everything that was slavery in this...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Kerwin Pittman Effective on July 27th, 2022, North Carolina citizens (Over 56,000 People) on state or federal probation, parole, or post-release supervision for felony convictions can IMMEDIATELY begin to REGISTER and VOTE in NC elections, making this the largest...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 17, 2022 | Emancipate NC News
Last week, Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson argued in the North Carolina Court of Appeals in an appeal of a termination of parental rights case arising in Durham County. Emancipate NC is informed by the Office of the Parent Defender that this was the third oral...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Dedan Waciuri Last month, Emancipate NC joined with family and community to call upon Pitt County District Attorney Faris Dixon to release James Richardson, a Black man wrongfully convicted of murder in 2011. Mr. Richardson was a promising international basketball...
