by Mandie Sellars | Sep 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
COVID-19 has spread rampantly through North Carolina’s state prisons, leaving thousands of incarcerated people infected and 12 dead. Still, NC Governor Roy Cooper has not commuted a single sentence during his 4-year term, and more than 2,000 who’ve completed their...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 11, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In their series “Calling for Change,” WUNC has been talking with North Carolinians who are advocating for major changes in policing. On September 10, they interviewed Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman about his life and what drives him in the fight for...
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 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...
