by operations | Aug 13, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
By Phillip Vance Smith II A new North Carolina law taking effect on December 1, 2025, will impose a seven-year limit on filing post-conviction appeals through a Motion for Appropriate Relief (MAR), potentially preventing wrongfully convicted people from proving their...
by operations | Jul 16, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Executive Director Dawn Blagrove will speak at this powerful rally on July 21
by operations | Mar 12, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would impose strict new voter registration requirements, including a mandate for registrants to present documents proving U.S. citizenship. However, tens of millions of Americans lack easy access to such documents,...
by operations | Jun 12, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Emancipate NC joins with For the People Action, Common Cause N.C., Democracy N.C., North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Advance Carolina, and El Pueblo to OPPOSE House Bill 237. Dawn Blagrove spoke at a Raleigh, NC press conference on June 6th, revealing how...
by operations | May 29, 2024 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
A new anti-masking bill could make it illegal to wear a mask at protests again, with exceptions for the Ku Klux Klan. North Carolina’s initial ban on masks at demonstrations came in response to the KKK. However, there’s still an exception in the...
by operations | May 11, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Mass Incarceration
Earlier this month, Kerwin Pittman joined up with the North Carolina Second Chance Alliance for its annual Second Chance Lobby Day at the General Assembly. This coalition comprises a statewide group of people with criminal records, their family members, service...
