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July 29, 2013
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - The protests began in response to a slew of bills from the Republican-controlled General Assembly, many of…
July 26, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican-backed measure that would make sweeping changes to when and how North Carolinians can vote…
July 25, 2013
HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina-based home furnishings company that marketsPaula Deen's furniture line is sticking with the…
July 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As demonstrators cast the right to vote in moral terms, and link their cause to pioneering civil…
July 2, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department says former Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx has been sworn in as President Barack…
July 2, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting…
June 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - Some fans and fellow chefs have defended her, accepting the first explanation that as a child of the…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - In my own state of Florida, one of the worst hit by AIDS, not a single publicly funded…
June 12, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Over the last two months, hundreds of protesters have walked out of North Carolina's capitol in…
June 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The list of conservative proposals undertaken by McCrory and the North Carolina general assembly is long, including…
June 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - This legislative action may pave the way for the number of executions to increase in the state,…
June 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A new civil disobedience movement is gaining momentum in North Carolina...
June 4, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Police estimate that roughly 1,000 people attended a rally late Monday afternoon behind the Legislative Building...
May 30, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man is headed to prison for threatening President Barack Obama through Twitter during…
May 21, 2013
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on…
May 1, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the…
April 23, 2013
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - One of Maya Angelou's doctors says the poet and author is recovering at her North Carolina…
April 12, 2013
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina A&T State University has lifted a lockdown imposed after reports of a man with…
February 13, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is kicking off three days of travel to rally support for the job-creation and…
February 7, 2013
theGRIO REPOT - On Wednesday jurors found Michael Johnson guilty of second-degree murder in the December 2010 death of Phylicia…