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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is among the conservative Democrats who have said they will skip the Democratic convention in Charlotte in August. (Alex Wong/Getty Images News)

Melissa Harris-Perry blasts Dems who won't attend convention

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VIDEO - MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sharply criticized congressional Democrats who won't attend the party's convention in August, arguing it weakens both these candidates and President Obama...
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NC legislators override race bias death row veto

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North Carolina Republican lawmakers have voted to override a veto of a law that will place limits on death-row inmates' ability to use evidence of racial bias to challenge the court's ruling of their fate.
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LaMonte Armstrong

Freed from prison 17 years after being wrongfully convicted

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theGRIO REPORT - A Greenesboro, NC judge has released LaMonte Armstrong from prison 17 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder...
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President Barack Obama arrives to speak during his appearance at the University of Chapel Hill on April 24, 2012 in Chapel Hill, North, Carolina. The President delivered remarks as part of a effort to get Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Can Obama repeat in North Carolina?

Mary Curtis
theGRIO REPORT - There’s no avoiding the importance the campaigns of both President Obama and his presumptive challenger Mitt Romney place on the state and its 15 electoral votes...
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No money for forced sterilization victims in NC

Martha Waggoner, Associated Press
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded' or otherwise undesirable..
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NC men legally innocent but still in jail

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Over 60 men like Terrell McCullum are presently behind bars for carrying a gun, but it's not a crime at all. Even so, the fact that he and others are innocent is not enough...
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NC man killed 4-year-old child he thought was gay

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A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to murdering a 28-year old woman and a 4-year-old child that he apparently believed was gay...
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KKK invites North Carolina town to 'white only' cross-burning

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Police in the town of Reidsville, North Carolina are investigating flyers that were sent by the Ku Klux Klan to residents in the town about a cross-burning planned to happen this weekend...
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New report shows growth in minority vote in NC, Fla.

Perry Bacon Jr.
theGRIO REPORT - The number of black, Latino and other voters of color is growing in North Carolina and Florida, while the percentage of voters who are white is dropping, according to a new analysis of voter rolls in the two states...
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Does Jay-Z's gay marriage endorsement matter?

Mychal Denzel Smith
OPINION - When a person like Jay-Z does speak up, it helps dispel the myth that black people are uniquely homophobic, and shows there are those among us who are still wrestling with an internal conflict regarding same-sex marriage...
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