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Convictions of 4 Freedom Riders Overturned by Orange County After 75 Years

Posted by Brighton McConnell | Jun 17, 2022 | Local Government, News

While more people may remember the Freedom Riders of 1961, 16 civil rights activists helped set...

CHCCS Honors Stanley Vickers, 60th Anniversary of Desegregation

Posted by Benjamin Rappaport | Aug 16, 2021 | Instagram, Pre-K - 12 Education

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. CHCCS passed a resolution Thursday honoring the family of Stan Vickers, who made that progress possible.

Family Files $30M Suit Over Deputies’ Shooting of Black Man

Posted by Associated Press | Jul 17, 2021 | State

Written by BEN FINLEY The family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by sheriff’s...

VP Harris Sits At Counter Where Greensboro Four Made History

Posted by Associated Press | Apr 20, 2021 | National, State

Written by AAMER MADHANI Vice President Kamala Harris took a detour while visiting North Carolina...

Worker Groups Pan NC Labor Chief on Refusing New COVID Rules

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Health, State Government

North Carolina worker and civil rights advocates are unhappy with the outgoing state labor...

AP Exclusive: More Migrant Women Say They Didn’t OK Surgery

Posted by Associated Press | Sep 18, 2020 | World

Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show the scars on her abdomen. There were three small, circular marks. The...

Local Community Remembers and Honors Rep. John Lewis

Posted by Brighton McConnell | Jul 18, 2020 | News

U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Democratic politician from Georgia, died Friday evening. The...

Historical Maker Honoring Chapel Hill Nine to be Added to Franklin Street

Posted by Elle Kehres | Feb 17, 2020 | Local Government, News Around Town

On February 28 in 1960, nine young men from Chapel Hill’s all-black high school organized a sit-in...

Civil Rights Leader Convicted of Trespassing at Legislature

Posted by Associated Press | Jun 7, 2019 | State

The civil rights leader who started the “Moral Monday” protest movement in North Carolina has been convicted of trespassing during a 2017 protest at the General Assembly. News outlets report that the Rev. William...

Chapel Hill 9 History Commemorated on Franklin Street

Posted by Sam Bermas-Dawes | Mar 4, 2019 | News Around Town

The Chapel Hill Nine were just high school students in 1960 when they staged sit-ins at a Franklin...

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