May 23, 2026

On the one year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, Chapel Hill and Carrboro community members gathered to celebrate her life, praise the efforts of Black women and advocate against racial injustice. Organized by the youth council of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, Saturday’s vigil at the Peace and Justice Plaza on East Franklin Street featured a […]

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 Barber was convicted of a misdemeanor charge in a Wake County courtroom Thursday. Barber was charged for not leaving the General […]

The North Carolina Senate tentatively agreed Thursday to a state spending plan for the next two years written by Republicans, who kept to their decade-old formula of budgets with tax cuts, tempered spending growth and money being parked in reserves. After four hours of debate, the chamber voted 29-18 for the measure, which GOP leaders […]

Would veto any NC budget plan that raises teacher pay dramatically like the Senate wants because it would mean huge cuts elsewhere to pay for it.

The "Moral Monday" sit-in in Thom Tillis's office was apparently unplanned, say activists who were there.

Local elected officials say they’ll have to cut services, especially in the school systems, to make up for the budget cuts.

The NAACP's "Moral March" was the largest civil rights march in the South in decades.

The North Carolina budget sought by Senate Republicans would eliminate the law that lays out how the state lottery's net proceeds should be distributed for education.

Aaron welcomes Carrboro High School student Milagros Secena, who's heading to a national poetry competition hosted by the NAACP.

This week, Dr. Deborah Stroman discuss the NAACP's Out of Bounds campaign in college sports.