NAACP NC President Rev. William Barber announced a major voter registration drive during Unity In The Community 2014. Barber said the NAACP, Forward Together Movement, the LightNC and several other organizations were working together to register thousands of North Carolineans to vote in this year’s mid-term elections. During his announcement/sermon, Barber implored Unity festival-goers to […]
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Many gathered yesterday for a peaceful rally for Treyvon Martin to call for change. The rally began at Moore Square and participant marched down to Martin St. Baptist Church where Rev. William Barber from the NAACP spoke to the crowd.
Charlotteans were among the estimated 1,500 people who descended upon the General Assembly on Monday to protest impending legislation by the state legislature. Monday’s turn…
North Carolina civil rights groups want the federal Department of Education to overturn the school board's decision to end a diversity program.
Hundreds expected to march tomorrow as leaders of the NAACP and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches of the Eastern District, other civic and religious groups, parents and student groups take part in a mass demonstration against the Wake County Board of Education’s planned policy change that they say will lead to re-segregated schools. Listen to […]
Yesterday the Wake Couty Board of Education voted to end the diversity policy in student assignment in schools.
