Orange County Bail/Bond Justice Fights to Change Unjust Bail Practices
A new non-profit is helping to change unjust bail practices in Orange County through providing...
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP
NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet to Feature Activist Bree Newsome
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of the NAACP is hosting its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, featuring activist and filmmaker Bree Newsome as this year’s keynote speaker. Newsome went to school to become a filmmaker....
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NAACP Hosting a Reconstruction Era Discussion at Chapel Hill Library
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of the NAACP will host an event on Saturday, August 24, examining...
Read MoreChapel Hill, UNC Celebrate MLK Week
Temperatures were so cold on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the National Weather Service issued a warning about staying outside too long. It was because of the severely cold weather that the Chapel Hill – Carrboro chapter of...
Read MoreNational Poor People’s Campaign Meets in DC for Moral Revival Rally on Saturday
The sixth and final week of rallies in North Carolina and around the country for Poor People’s Campaign has come to a close and has led to thousands of arrests of protesters at state capitol buildings. The campaign, which has...
Read MoreLocal NAACP Holding Forum on “Tax Cut and Jobs Act”
Are you among the 400,000 North Carolinians who advocates say will lose health insurance if the “Tax Cut and Jobs Act” passes? The Chapel Hill- Carrboro NAACP branch is holding an informational forum on Tuesday at the Chapel...
Read MoreOrange and Chatham County Public Defender Retires
James Williams has served as public defender for Orange and Chatham counties since 1990. He’s also the first vice president of the Chapel Hill Carrboro chapter of the NC NAACP. At the end of May, he retired from the public...
Read MoreNC NAACP Units Prepare for HKonJ
Every February since 2006, the different units of the NC NAACP gather with other NC organizations to form the Historic Thousands on Jones Street, or HKonJ. HKonJ is an event in Raleigh that consists of a rally and march for...
Read MoreRace And Policing: Are We Addressing The Issue The Right Way?
How best to address racial disparities in policing? Locally, all sides are eager to come to the table.
Read More“We Have Work To Do”: NAACP Hosts Police Chiefs, Sheriff
About 50 people gathered Saturday for a spirited forum on race, class, and local policing, hosted by the NAACP.
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