Protests

Host Rusty Jacobs discusses proposed changes to North Carolina's anti-riot statute with activists, lawmakers, business owners and a civil liberties advocate.

Host Leoneda Inge talks with Professor Elan Hope of NC State University about her research of youth activism, and how racism has prompted young people to act.

More than 80% of young Black people say they engaged in some form of social justice activism in the last year, according to research conducted by Dr. Elan Hope of NC State University.

A rally and march on Sunday marked the 12th day of protests in Elizabeth City over the shooting of a Black man by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies. Photographers Kate Medley and Peyton Sickles captured images from the day for WUNC.

Hundreds of protesters gathered Sunday in Elizabeth City, N.C., to demand justice and accountability for the death of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man who was shot and killed by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants a week and a half ago.

For a third night in a row, demonstrators marched through downtown Raleigh protesting the police killings of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota and 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago.

The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government watchdog, will review the federal government's use of nonlethal weapons and the tactics it wielded against protesters this summer.

Raleigh police used expired tear gas on demonstrators during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to a report…

Protesters in Winston-Salem ended their 49-day occupation of downtown's Bailey Park this week.Their demands were met following weeks of coordinated…

In the police video, Officer Tou Thao seems to get increasingly agitated as the crowd becomes more vocal, with onlookers repeatedly asking him why Floyd's vital signs aren't being checked.