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ArticlesTrump’s message is clear: Your existence is up for debate, and your rights are expendable.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil...[Read More]
This spring Dawn Blagrove, the Executive Director of Emancipate NC joined our board of directors. We’ve highlighted some of her amazing work with justice involved...[Read More]
My friend Frankie sent me another link this week to educate myself about race. This one was about mass incarceration. We’d watched the documentary, Thirteenth,...[Read More]
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Women AdvaNCe has named Dawn Blagrove, the Executive Director of the Carolina Justice Policy Center as a Woman to Watch! Dawn is an attorney and attended...[Read More]
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As a black woman in an interracial relationship, I hold my culture. I must pass this culture down to my biracial children. Being in an interracial...[Read More]
As a child and teenager, I grew up frequenting the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina A&T...[Read More]
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In her New York Times piece on August 15 of last year, author Kim Brooks (Small Animals: Parenthood in an Age of Fear) makes the...[Read More]