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Bipartisan momentum for clean slate and fair chance licensing policies which remove barriers to economic opportunity for people facing the stigma of a criminal record has grown significantly in the states in recent years. ....
The North Carolina Second Chance Alliance, a criminal justice reform group, held a virtual day of advocacy on Tuesday, with attendees proposing a ten point policy agenda aimed at improving conditions for recently-incarcerated people. Organizers screened a video with testimonies from members describing their experiences with reentry post-incarceration. Speakers discussed difficulty finding employment, being denied housing and the looming worry of court fines and fees. “Just because you have an experience that might be a bad decision you may have made, you shouldn’t be punished for the rest of your life for that,” Alexander Williams, an organizer with the Second Chance Alliance said. “You deserve opportunities, you deserve equal access, the quality of life that everybody else does.” ....
UNC-Chapel chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and demonstrators at this morning’s Board of Trustees meeting (Photo: Kyle Ingram) Demonstrators from the Carolina Black Caucus and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP gathered outside the Carolina Inn on Thursday to protest the Board of Trustees refusal to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. “Lots of people are frustrated, they are angry, they are feeling unseen and unheard,” Dawna Jones, chair of the Carolina Black Caucus said. “They feel like this is a direct attack on Black women and Black lives and Black history.” As Policy Watch reported, Hannah-Jones, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project, was approved for tenure upon hire by faculty at UNC Hussman and the UNC administration, but the process failed upon reaching the BOT. ....
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