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Fear of democracy is reviving Jim Crow-like strategies in NC | Opinion
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe week before the Sept. 12 primary election in Mecklenburg County, a leader in Democracy North...
Lexington’s segregation sits on a historical scaffold of white supremacy | Opinion
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOpEd: Segregation was legalized by ordinance and state law and upheld by federal courts. Where it...
Democrats in 1900 made the NC Constitution racist: Will voters today undo that?
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1900, white supremacist Democratic voters amended the North Carolina Constitution with a Literacy...
Fayetteville center will highlight 1898 Wilmington massacre: 'You are going to be amazed'
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA planned History Center on the Civil War and its aftermath will make a central element an immersive...
Confederate icon’s descendant advocates for removing ancestor’s statue from U.S. Capitol
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe great-great-great grandson of Confederate icon J.Z. George wants to see his ancestor’s statue...
Ricky Jones: White supremacy, say its name!
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt has become popular for protest leaders to mightily shout “Say her (or his) name!” at rallies seeking justice for the growing number of victims of...
A Republican whitesplaining Black history to Don Lemon shows why schools need more critical race...
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: GOP presidential Vivek Ramaswamy claims the Civil War was fought so Black people could own...
Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping American politics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966,...
There’s no such thing as ‘race neutral’
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoOPINION: In striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court accepted the absurd notion of a theoretical colorblind country that no one asked for and...