by Mandie Sellars | Oct 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
After a summer of protests demanding changes from law enforcement, the intensity of those demonstrations has waned. But calls for reform have not. On October 15, Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman joined UNC TV’s Black Issues Forum host Deborah Holt Noel for a...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In late September, Emancipate NC partnered with Breathe (Board for a Racially Equitable Transformed Harnett County) Harnett to raise additional billboards in support of Black lives. The messages on the billboard were crafted by the members of Breath Harnett to empower...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 10, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Emancipate NC is working on efforts to make sure incarcerated people get the CARES Act stimulus funds (COVID-19 payments) they are entitled to. In March and April, it was discovered that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was routinely denying people who were...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 3, 2020 | Emancipate NC News
On September 28, WUNC’s Amanda Magnus and Frank Stasio interviewed Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove about how her early life and experiences shape her work today. In the interview, Dawn Blagrove discusses discovering her life’s work at an...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 2, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Policing
Protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh, starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 26. The rally was organized by Emancipate NC alongside coalition partners Raleigh Demands Justice, Save our Sons, and PACT Fayetteville. The rally, Uncover North Carolina: An...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 30, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
The 2004 story of Malaika Brooks is a powerful look at exactly why we need to get rid of qualified immunity for police...
