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In 1957, young Virginia Williams made history as part of the Royal Ice Cream sit-in movement in Durham. Williams, now 87, was recently honored at an ice cream social at NorthStar Church of the Arts.
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Comedian Roy Wood Jr. takes a break from stand up to sit down with historians and former Negro League players in the new NPR podcast "Road to Rickwood."
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.
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60 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1963, "Four Little Girls" were killed in a bombing set by the Ku Klux Klan at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Some who lived through the trauma wonder if anything has changed.
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One of the most famous speeches in world was given by Martin Luther King Jr. 60 years ago at the Civil Rights March on Washington. But did you know King first gave part of his "I Have a Dream" speech months earlier, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina?
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill that would start the process of building more public monuments dedicated to civil rights icons.
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The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission is working to extend the trail and more Black history stories across the state.
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In July, Ocean City will be honored with a historical marker from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the N.C. African American Heritage Commission.
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On Tuesday, the Guilford County Schools Board of Education approved the name “Sylvia Mendez Newcomers School” for a future High Point school. The board also voted to name a new K-8 school after Katherine Johnson, one of several Black women who played crucial roles as NASA mathematicians.
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The decisions, which come after a Court of Appeals ruling in December also siding with the state, appear to mean Barber's second-degree trespass conviction is final.