Raleigh Demands Justice

10/02/2024

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Starting now. Learn about why judge races matter. I’m on

We vote on judges in North Carolina, and our judicial races are incredibly important! Whether judges are weighing in on restrictions to our civil rights, abortion and contraceptive care access, environmental protections, or our voting rights, we need fair and impartial judges on the bench to act as....

09/25/2024

As the election season heats up and voting begins, experts join a panel discussion on the stakes of 2024 judicial races across a variety of issues driving voters to the polls. Speakers include: Dawn Blagrove, Executive Dir., Emancipate NC Beatrice Beaubrun, Deputy Dir., NC For the People Melissa Pri...

09/05/2024

Blagrove says that while RPD has added new policies, officers have not faced real consequences for breaking them. The city enacted a “de-escalation” policy, for example, in late 2022. But when police confronted Darryl Williams in a Raleigh parking lot just months later, officers tased him repeatedly and restrained him, leading to his death. Officers involved in use-of-force incidents like this remain on the job, Blagrove notes.

Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin saw the council go from united to divided over numerous issues. How will Raleigh move forward without her?

07/25/2024

Be sceptical of people who claim to want free election but only take steps that suppress and disenfranchise marginalized voters.

Commentary by Dawn Blagrove When people who actually care about free and fair elections called the wave of election law changes in North Carolina voter suppression, conservatives and election deniers clutched their proverbial pearls and cried that they were being unfairly attacked. They said making...

07/11/2024

“They are creating a narrative that they know will have a chilling effect on people exercising their constitutional rights to protest,” Dawn Blagrove, executive director of Emancipate North Carolina, told NBC.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s eldest child used her platform to take a stand after revealing she contracted a “post-viral condition” in 2019

07/09/2024

Dawn Blagrove, executive director of the criminal justice organization Emancipate North Carolina, called her state’s new restrictions on mask-wearing a “dog whistle” to “frighten the community” against protest.

Amid calls to reinstate mask bans, Covid-19 cases remain on the rise in 38 states, according to the CDC.

06/21/2024

Come out and be reminded why elections matter! I’ll be speaking at this event.

Two years after the Deadly and Dreadful Dobbs Decision (6/24/22), abortion bans are rampant. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) upended almost 50 years of precedent with this terrible …

06/11/2024

“We have a constitutional right to protest. However, our General assembly and a few men here have decided that we should no longer be able to protest if we are not protesting for the things that uphold and support white supremacy,”said Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director of Emancipate NC. “That is an imprisonment on everyone’s democracy.”

Advocates hold a Tuesday press conference to speak out against anti-protest and campaign finance legsialtion

06/03/2024

Marcus R. Bass spitting fire!!!!

Bass said. “It’s not lost on Black voters the real problems of our criminal justice system. The Trump guilty verdict is not one of those problems.”

The same New York criminal legal system Trump attempted to influence to railroad the Exonerated 5 (formerly known as the Central Park 5) is now holding him accountable.

05/16/2024

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05/09/2024

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Incredibly proud to work beside Kerwin Pittman!

A North Carolina group hopes to help people stay out of prison by connecting them to critical resources. Recidivism Reduction Educational Programs Services is launching a new hotline to help formerly incarcerated people with re-entry services. Kerwin Pittman, the organization's founder, said he foun...