by Mandie Sellars | Sep 2, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
It has been three months since George Floyd protests began in North Carolina, and Emancipate NC has worked tirelessly to connect anti-racist protestors arrested to volunteer attorneys across the state. North Carolina has seen protests in almost 100 communities across...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 30, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League
by Kyla Holton, Emancipate NC Justice League Fellow and senior at Garner Magnet High School I can so vividly remember the first protest that truly caught my eye while I experienced watching it on T.V. It was 2016, right after Donald Trump was elected as the U.S...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 29, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On August 28, close to 1,000 people marched through downtown Raleigh, up Fayetteville Street from the Wake County Justice Center to the State Capitol. The protest comes days after Jacob Blake, a Black man in Wisconsin, was left paralyzed after a police officer shot...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 29, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
In June, Emancipate NC joined with ACLU of North Carolina, Disability Rights North Carolina, Forward Justice, and the National Juvenile Justice Network, filed a lawsuit demanding better protection for incarcerated people from COVID-19. The lawsuit asserted that the...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Please register and join us Friday, September 11, 2020 at 7:00 pm for Poetic Justice 2020, to be held virtually via Zoom due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Emancipate NC Poet-in-Residence Hausson Byrd will curate multiple young artists to share stories and spoken...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 16, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On August 15, WRAL’s Lena Tillett hosted a powerful segment connecting the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to today’s Black Lives Matter activism and protests. Tillett brought together a Zoom panel of experienced activists across different generations: Judy...
