The movement for better pay for teachers that ignited in West Virginia, where thousands of teachers went on strike, and has swept through states like Oklahoma and Arizona, reached North Carolina on Wednesday. Wearing “red 4 ed” T-shirts, an estimated 20,000 teachers and public education supporters filled the streets of Raleigh and marched to the […]
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Law and Disorder in North Carolina
Since Republicans gained control of the North Carolina legislature in 2011, judges have emerged as some of their staunchest adversaries. Now lawmakers want to curb state court powers.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
North Carolina on the Brink: Repeal of Anti-Transgender Bill Falls Flat
In North Carolina, which has become ground zero in the fight over LGBTQ rights, a special legislative session to repeal the state’s House Bill 2 devolved into name-calling and hostile stalemate.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Will GOP Power Seizure in North Carolina Become National Model?
A bid by North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature to strip power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor has prompted another round of progressive protests and civil disobedience.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Counter Protests Swamp KKK Celebration in North Carolina
A Ku Klux Klan gathering this weekend both recalled North Carolina’s racially troubled history, and demonstrated the strength and diversity of the state’s civil rights movement today.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Democrats Make Gains in North Carolina Against Backdrop of Voter Suppression
Changing demographics, combined with the three-year effort by state Republicans to suppress minority and youth turnout, led to close races.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Equality Becomes a Talking Point in North Carolina Gubernatorial Race
With the state’s demographics and political makeup shifting, backlash against anti-LGBT law may help send Democrat Roy Cooper to the governor’s office.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
North Carolina’s Fragile Voting Rights Victory
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that rejected voting restrictions in North Carolina only because the Court’s current 4-4 split left the justices evenly divided. The stalemate underscores how the future of voting rights hangs on the high court’s composition.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
In North Carolina, Backlash Against Anti-LGBT Bill Continues
Protesters gathered in Raleigh and Chapel Hill to oppose HB2, chronicled here in a photo essay.
Posted inEducation in America
North Carolina Educators Fight Deportations of Central American Students
Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
