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Shruti Shah/Transracial adoptees share stories of questioning how and what they were taught about race and identity growing up. -
In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.
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One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court — one the son of arguably the state's most powerful Republican politician — should recuse themselves. -
Climate change is on the minds of world leaders gathering for the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. They'll be talking about emissions reductions, carbon markets and other tactics to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. It's far removed from South Carolina's Low Country, where members of the Gullah Geechee Nation are already feeling the effects of climate change.
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Brown’s family and others are still waiting for key developments in the case — including the results of an ongoing FBI probe, a family lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages, and a media petition for the public release of body camera footage.
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Outside of Old Fort, the Western North Carolina railroad bends around Andrews Geyser. Thousands of incarcerated laborers built this railroad – and nearly all of them were African American.
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North Carolina has no plans to exclude prisoners when drawing legislative voting districts, but local jurisdictions are grappling with how to handle prisoners as they redistrict.
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A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921. Now a century later, the Board of Commissioners in Chatham County, North Carolina, issued its apology Tuesday, calling it a step toward community healing.
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A survey found widespread concern from Black, Latino, and Asian military families about inequality in cities where bases are located.
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Downtown Sylva has a new addition - a sculpture of Harriet Tubman. Meet the local woman behind the sculpture.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has rejected a bill to limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts inside the classroom. The proposal would have prohibited teachers from compelling students to personally adopt any ideas from a list of 13 beliefs.
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A year after South Carolina native and "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer, stats show colorectal cancer is killing Black men in neighboring North Carolina disproportionately.
