The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

WISN 12 News is celebrating Black History, highlighting important facts and figures each day of Black History Month.

The new Pauli Murray Center in Durham, North Carolina, preserves the legacy of a gender-nonconforming giant of the civil ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

Auditions for the 2025 Asheville Community Talent Showcase (A.C.T.S.), a vibrant celebration of the rich talent from ...

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding ...

Other states (like Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico), have ruled that partisan gerrymandering violates voters’ rights under similar provisions. Representing the League of Women Voters of South ...

1998 – A South Carolina jury awards the largest judgment ever against ... a report finding that most states fail at teaching students about the civil rights movement. 2011 – The public school district ...