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Last year, ICE sent upwards of 4,500 requests to local law enforcement in North Carolina, asking them to hold people in jail when state law would otherwise mandate their release. For the people targeted by these requests, there are few options.
In 2008, Yolanda Zavala’s 18-year-old son was ticketed by a police officer for driving without a license. What should’ve been a minor citation turned into his deportation.
Earlier this month, 23-year-old Chanel Scurlock was found shot dead in Lumberton, North Carolina. She is the ninth transgender Black woman killed in 2019.
The movement to reform our country’s for-profit, cash bail system has gained steam over the last few months as elected officials from states including California, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and more have enacted reforms to reduce the number of people who are jailed before they have th
Across the country, people are talking about abortion as legislatures in the South and Midwest mount a full-scale attack on our reproductive freedom. Naturally, people are stressed and angry. I am too. I’ve been fighting to protect abortion access for more than 25 years.
Three years ago, an eighth grade student named Keely Burks created a petition at Charter Day School in Leland, North Carolina. That petition asked for a simple change: that girls be allowed to wear pants and not be punished.
