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Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the spring of 1963, a Hawkins led 65 people on a four-mile march from an African American college to the center of Charlotte’s downtown. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'

Mitch Weiss, Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile (6.4-kilometer) march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown...
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Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. President Obama intends to nominate Rep. Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama naming NC's Mel Watt to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Jim Kuhnhenn and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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Dr. Maya Angelou poses at the the Special Recognition Event for Dr. Maya Angelou � The Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait at Dr. Angelou's home June 21, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Ken Charnock/Getty Images)

Maya Angelou recovering after hospitalization

Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - One of Maya Angelou's doctors says the poet and author is recovering at her North Carolina home following a brief hospitalization...
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North Carolina A&T (www.ncat.edu)

NC A&T lockdown lifted after report of armed man

Associated Press
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina A&T State University has lifted a lockdown imposed after reports of a man with a rifle on campus...
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President Barack Obama is greeted after giving his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama travels to NC to rally support for jobs plan

Josh Lederman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is kicking off three days of travel to rally support for the job-creation and economic proposals he unveiled in his State of the Union address...
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Phylicia Barnes

Phylicia Barnes case: Suspect found guilty of 2nd-degree murder

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theGRIO REPOT - On Wednesday jurors found Michael Johnson guilty of second-degree murder in the December 2010 death of Phylicia Barnes...
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Rev. William Barber (Courtesy Eric Byler)

theGrio's 100: William Barber, fighting for the rights of all North Carolinians

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theGRIO's 100 - The Rev. Dr. William Barber is a modern-day civil rights leader who has led the fight for fairness, and the rights to marry and vote in North Carolina...
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Mayor Anthony Foxx, of Charlotte, N.C., speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

theGrio's 100: Anthony Foxx leading in the New South

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theGRIO's 100 - Anthony Foxx is the mayor of Charlotte and considered a rising political star not only in the state but nationally...
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Wilmington Ten

NC governor pardons 'Wilmington 10'

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - After years of claims that they were wrongly convicted, nine African-American men and one white women wrongly imprisoned for an arson fire in North Carolina that stemmed from racial unrest over integrated schools have been pardoned...
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Screen capture: the Wilmington Ten.

Melissa Harris Perry: Pardon the Wilmington 10

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VIDEO - On Saturday, Melissa Harris Perry used her weekly "letter" to address out-going North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue. Her request? Pardon the Wilmington 10 ...
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