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 | Jun 9, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
A North Carolina Superior Court judge announced a ruling in favor of plaintiffs today, finding that plaintiffs were likely to win their claim that people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic are being held under unconstitutional...
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...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Big news today in our COVID-19 prison litigation! Judge Rozier has ordered the Department of Public Safety to take immediate steps to keep incarcerated people safe from COVID-19 — including moving beds six feet apart, providing full access...
