VP Harris Sits At Counter Where Greensboro Four Made History
Written by AAMER MADHANI Vice President Kamala Harris took a detour while visiting North Carolina...
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Worker Groups Pan NC Labor Chief on Refusing New COVID Rules
North Carolina worker and civil rights advocates are unhappy with the outgoing state labor...
Read MoreAP Exclusive: More Migrant Women Say They Didn’t OK Surgery
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...
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Local Community Remembers and Honors Rep. John Lewis
U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Democratic politician from Georgia, died Friday evening. The...
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Historical Maker Honoring Chapel Hill Nine to be Added to Franklin Street
On February 28 in 1960, nine young men from Chapel Hill’s all-black high school organized a sit-in...
Read MoreCivil Rights Leader Convicted of Trespassing at Legislature
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...
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Chapel Hill 9 History Commemorated on Franklin Street
The Chapel Hill Nine were just high school students in 1960 when they staged sit-ins at a Franklin...
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Historical Civil Rights Task Force Presents Findings to Chapel Hill Town Council
Last fall, Chapel Hill mayor Pam Hemminger created the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task...
Read MoreChapel Hill Collecting Civil Rights Stories
The Town of Chapel Hill is collecting the stories of people who lived in Chapel Hill during the 1960s and experienced the Civil Rights Movement. The Historic Civil Rights Commemorative Task Force, created by Mayor Pam Hemminger...
Read MoreFormer UNC Law Professor Named Interim Director of Civil Rights Organization
A former UNC School of Law professor has been named the interim executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. The organization announced the hiring of Kareem Crayton on Wednesday morning. Crayton will serve as...
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