Protests

Community members in West Badin hosted a rally to draw attention to longstanding environmental issues in the community.

Supporters of the increased punishments say the legislation is a necessary deterrent. But the ACLU says the law goes overboard in criminalizing people who exercise their rights to free speech and assembly.

Protesters began gathering near Raleigh's Bicentennial Plaza around 5:30 p.m., just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court announced a 6-3 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

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.