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Around 100 people came out to celebrate the civil rights icons who helped integrate communities while establishing a far-reaching legacy.

Triad Cultural Arts was awarded a North Carolina Humanities Grant for the Shotgun House Legacy Site. $3,000 will be utilized to document significant narratives from residents concerning Black life in Winston-Salem throughout the Jim Crow and Civil Rights periods.

In November, 1898, an armed white supremacist mob – supported by most white elites in North Carolina – murdered untold Black Wilmington residents and…

The Fryes have called Greensboro home for the past 70 years. Henry served as the first Black chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Shirley led the integration of the city's two YWCAs in the 1970s.

The Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 destroyed a once thriving multiracial democracy, killed dozens if not hundreds of innocent Black people, and left in its wake a community forever scarred.

Author and NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe talks with WFDD's David Ford about her new book HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience.

The city of Winston-Salem is honoring Black History Month with a traveling exhibit celebrating the history of Black builders and craftspeople.

This special program, hosted by stage and film actor Teagle F. Bougere, celebrates the protean literary master and social activist Langston Hughes…

The High Point City Council approved a reparations and reconciliation report in September in an eight-to-one vote, representing the culmination of an effort first started by the local NAACP Chapter.

Sixty-four years ago, four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University freshmen staged a sit-in at a Woolworth in Greensboro to fight segregation. The school commemorated the anniversary today with a conversation about social justice.