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 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League
NJJN Membership Advisory Council Member Jorren Biggs talks with Emancipate NC’s Justice Fellow Aneesha Tucker and California Youth Activist and Policy Organizer Ronaldo Villeda about the election, innovation, and imagining safer spaces for...
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 | Jul 6, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Raising the Juvenile Age
by Tessa Hale, Emancipate NC Board Member Years ago, I worked as a mitigation specialist on death penalty cases. In that role, I constructed humanizing social histories for defendants in cases that would be presented at the sentencing phases of their...
by Mandie Sellars | May 22, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration
Emancipate NC is proud to announce that we have been selected as one of five organizations nationally to receive funding for COVID-19 Youth Justice Response. This project is a partnership between the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) and the Annie E. Casey...