Civil Rights

The city of Greensboro has been awarded a $75,000 grant for a program aimed at documenting African American architectural and civil rights history.

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.

Civil rights advocates and Democratic state legislators defended and praised Wednesday a state Supreme Court justice for suing this week to block a state…

On February 1, 1960, four Black students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took a stand against segregation. This week,…

Wake Forest University is hosting its 14th annual Read-In Day on Jan. 21st to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and promote literacy.

The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP who also served as president of the…

The North Carolina state employee health plan unlawfully discriminates by excluding treatments for transgender people by refusing to pay for hormone…

Guilford County Commissioner Carolyn Coleman has died. The community leader and civil rights champion represented the Pleasant Garden community and…

Police officers violated civil rights law when they forced a blind man and his service dog to leave a mall and threatened to arrest him for trespassing if…

The author of a book on notable U.S. civil rights locations was in Greensboro this week unveiling what's called an "augmented reality component." The…