by Mandie Sellars | Oct 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On October 13, 2020, the Wilson Branch of the NC NAACP hosted a conversation on the impact of incarceration on communities, families, and children, especially in rural NC counties. Speakers included: Attorney Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director of Emancipate NC,...
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 | 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...
