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August 21, 2013
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The Republican mayoral candidate in Winston-Salem, N.C., has dropped out after local party leaders withdrew their…
August 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT- Opponents of the new law fear its provisions would particularly target minorities, the elderly, the poor and the…
August 13, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's governor on Monday quietly signed a measure into law that overhauls the state's election…
August 6, 2013
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Seventy-First High School returned to the football practice field on Monday as the team and community were…
August 5, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Julius Chambers, a Charlotte attorney whose practice was in the forefront of the civil rights movement…
July 29, 2013
NBC News - From 1929 to 1974 North Carolina forcibly sterilized thousands of men, women and children, usually without their…
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It’s been more than 53 years since Feb. 1, 1960, the day when Franklin McCain, David Richmond,…
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...