A federal judge ruled to keep a controversial North Carolina voter ID law in place, despite outcry from civil rights activists and residents who claim it has a negative impact on people of color. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder decided to dismiss lawsuits filed against state election laws. Judge Schroeder said there isn’t any substantial […]
Federal investigators visited Wake County, N.C. to investigate complaints about racial bias in the school district. This is part of an ongoing civil rights probe.
The White House is pressuring Congress to pass a $1.9 billion bill to provide emergency funding for Zika.
The 2016 National Championship Game in Houston might have been the most lit NCAA Men’s Finals game of all time! Villanova beat out North Carolina with a sick three-point buzzer shot by Kris Jenkins. Marcus Paige hit a big three with a little over a minute left to cut Villanova’s lead down to three. After some stifling […]
As voters headed to the polls in five early voting states Tuesday, presidential candidates in both parties zig zagged across the country as they made last-ditch efforts to make an impression.
A Black man was shot and killed in Raleigh, North Carolina Monday by city police officers after they chased the alleged drug suspect. Akiel Denkins, 24, was unarmed according to his mother and witness statements, the Huffington Post reports.
Of 7,600 people screened from August through December 2015, less than .3 percent tested positive.
Roland Martin talks to Rev. William Barber, author of The Third Reconstruction, about fusion politics and North Carolina being the hub of racial intolerance.…
The Washington D.C. area, which received over two feet of snow, has decided to close both federal and local government offices and schools.
Marie Holmes, the North Carolina mom who won a $188 million Powerball lottery jackpot last year and has spent millions bailing her boyfriend out of jail, now has legal challenges of her own.
Here’s a trend I’d like to see take off in 2016 – minding your own business. In the social media era, that may be impossible,…
