Protesters with Indivisible Forsyth held a “Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue” protest on Fourth Street downtown on Friday, Oct. 27.
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According to an Oct. 30 release from the N.C. Dept. of Insurance Monday, the enrollment period, now underway, ends on Dec. 15 for coverage through the 2018 Federal Health Insurance Exchange to begin Jan. 1, 2018.
Last week on Oct. 17, Sen. Bill Rabon (R-New Hanover) filed SB 698, a Constitutional Amendment titled “Increase Voter Accountability of Judges”.
Black congressional members are outraged, and say the White House owes apologies to the dead soldier’s family, the congresswoman and the nation.
North Carolina Republicans say the state’s judicial districts have not been fine- tuned in 60 years, and as a result,
As a federal hearing in North Carolina’s own partisan gerrymandering case involving congressional districts commenced this week in Greensboro, a
At last week’s 74th Annual N.C. NAACP Convention in Raleigh, legal activists fighting against illegal North Carolina voting laws and
The N.C. NAACP elected a new president last weekend to touts, “I’m woke, and I ain’t skerd,” letting advocates and adversaries alike know that just because Bishop Dr. William J. Barber II has finished his 12-year tenure as leader, doesn’t mean the state’s oldest civil rights organization will cease it’s aggressive battle for freedom, justice and equality.
Barber recalls many battles he’s led the N.C. NAACP into, in the areas of education, civil rights, workers’ rights, immigrant rights, LBGTQ rights, affordable health care, criminal justice and economic justice, many of which ended in victory for the people.
Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, and Rev. Dr. Portia Rochelle, are vying to succeed Barber as president of the N.C. NAACP.
