Letters to the Editor: Civil rights cold cases need more attention
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BY TEVIN STINSON THE CHRONICLE After undergoing two different surgeries in less than two weeks to remove bullet fragments, Kalvin Michael Smith is at home recovering this week, said his
BY GARY D. ROBERTSON ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — The philosophical and political balance of North Carolina’s Supreme Court could shift as voters this fall choose to keep a longtime
Rahiel Tesfamariam speaks at Wake Forest University on Feb. 4. BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY FOR THE CHRONICLE Rahiel Tesfamariam has taken the torch from the African-American leaders of the past and
Benjamin Chavis NNPA Columnist Whenever we begin a new calendar year, it can be useful to make New Year’s Resolutions
(Justice Ervin fields a question from an attendee.) Newly-elected North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Sam J. Ervin IV visited the
(pictured above: Edward W. Brooke) Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who in 1966 became the first black person in U.S.
(This op/ed was originally published Dec. 15 in the (Greensboro) News and Record.) With the year quickly drawing to a
In photo: Columnist Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who says Black America’s national leadership should immediately convene a summit. By Benjamin
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Time Distributed via NNPA In 1971, a riot broke out at the Attica Correctional Facility in New
