by Mandie Sellars | Feb 19, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
In January, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove traveled to Smithfield, North Carolina, to provide a Vote4Justice training for members of the African-American Caucus of the Johnston County Democratic Party and other community advocates. On February 17, several of...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 22, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On Saturday, January 19, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove joined Judge Josephine Kerr Davis, Durham District Attorney Satana Deberry, leaders of African-American Caucus of the NC Democratic Party, and others to discuss criminal justice reform in North Carolina....
by Mandie Sellars | Dec 31, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On December 16, 2018, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove joined Irving Joyner and April Dawson, law professors at North Carolina Central University School of Law, for their weekly one-hour show. They dive deep into criminal justice reform topics that include mass...
by Mandie Sellars | Dec 27, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
By Syd Roberts, Communications Staff This December CJPC, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove was able to share her breadth of expertise on a police accountability panel at the 75th Annual NAACP of NC State Convention in Raleigh. Towards the end of a day full of...
by Mandie Sellars | Dec 9, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On Saturday, December 8, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove joined Rev. Curtis E. Gatewood, President & Founder for JUSTICE Ministration and the Stop Killing Us (SKU) Solutions Campaign and other community activists and families of police violence victims for a...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 13, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
By Mandie Sellars, CJPC Board Member It wasn’t until I saw the coffin-sized metal box above my head with the name Wake County on it that I froze. My body could no longer move, as tears streamed silently down my cheeks. The box bore three simple pieces of data: the...
