When the 74th Annual NC NAACP Convention opens at the Raleigh Convention Center, Thursday, October 5 through Saturday, Oct. 7, it’s theme will be a familiar, yet defiant one: “Forward
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North Carolina will remain tied to testing as its main evaluation tool.
According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau released on Sept. 14, more than 1.5 million of 10,146,788 North Carolinians still languish in poverty with lack of access to
An interview with N.C. NAACP presidential candidate Rev. Portia Rochelle.
To many legal experts, it’s hard to believe that Republican legislative leaders deliberately redrew new voting maps for the state House and Senate – as ordered by a three-judge federal court – without incorporating race as one of the nine criteria guiding the process. After all, it was the abusive, and according to the US Supreme Court, illegal use of race by Republican mapmakers in drawing the 2011 redistricting plan that earned the ire of the federal court – namely the stacking and packing of black voters into 28 of 170 districts across the state in order to severely weaken their influence in legislative races, thus giving the GOP super-majorities in both houses.
Courts continue to weigh if the newly drawn redistricting maps for North Carolina are fair.
Members of the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus say after Charlottesville, it might not be the right time to push for a North Carolina Freedom Monument.
Speak up now about redistricting in North Carolina!
The North Carolina General Assembly lawmakers is closer to approving new redistricting maps.
The North Carolina General Assembly may finish redrawing voting districts as early as next week.
