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Racist Roots: NC’s Death Penalty & Systemic Racism

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  • When April 25, 2023 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
  • Where Cape Fear Community College Auditorium
    Union Station, 502 N. Front St., Wilmington, NC
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  • Hosted by NCCADP, Cape Fear Community College Feminist Alliance, Nixon Leaders Center, New Hanover County NAACP, LEX V (Lived Experience Voices)

The Cape Fear Community College Feminist Alliance and the Nixon Leaders Center present this special event on the origins of North Carolina’s death penalty. The evening will include a screening of Racist Roots, a 25-minute film created by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, along with a spoken word performance by Nick Courmon and a panel discussion moderated by NCCADP Executive Director Noel Nickle. Panelists are Daquan Peters, founder of LEX V (Lived Experience Voices), Kimberly Cook, professor and director of the Restorative Justice Collaborative at UNC Wilmington, and Alfred Rivera, an exoneree from NC’s death row. Event is free and no RSVP is required. Sponsored by NCCADP and the New Hanover County NAACP.

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This is how movements are built: one conversation This is how movements are built: one conversation at a time. 

Many thanks to Asheville Friends Meeting for welcoming us for a screening of Racist Roots. Our Executive Director Noel Nickle and summer intern Sofi Zuber were grateful to spend the afternoon alongside Niconda Garcia and everyone who joined us to explore the history of North Carolina's death penalty and the racism that has shaped it from the beginning.
The story of North Carolina's death penalty is ins The story of North Carolina's death penalty is inseparable from the state's history of racial injustice.

On Monday, August 10, join us at St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain for a screening of Racist Roots, followed by a discussion with Noel Nickle, Robert Udashen, and Alfred Rivera, who was exonerated after spending years on North Carolina's death row.

Register: bit.ly/StJamesRR2026 or at the link in our bio
Twenty years after North Carolina's last execution Twenty years after North Carolina's last execution the death penalty is still deeply entrenched in our state's legal system. Where do we go from here? 

Join us August 22 for a public symposium featuring people directly impacted by the death penalty alongside attorneys, advocates, scholars, and other experts as we explore the true costs of capital punishment and the future of justice in our state.

📆  Saturday, August 22, 1–4 PM
📍 Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC
🔗  Register at bit.ly/nccadp-symposium

Free and open to all. We hope to see you there!

#NoMoreDeathRow #BeyondTheDeathPenalty #EndTheDeathPenalty #NorthCarolina #DeathPenalty #Symposium
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