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...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 13, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Above, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove and Community Organizer Kerwin Pittman stand in front of the newly-erected billboard that will stay up until at least September 6. On August 10, Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman helped organize funds and logistics to have another...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 5, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Qualified immunity is one of the critical reasons so many police are never successfully held accountable for misconduct. And even in the rare occurrence that police are held accountable, qualified immunity means they almost never personally have to pay for violating...
