William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental in helping others secure ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building ...

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They had prepared the candidates by sending each of them 21 questions beforehand and organizing the forum in the Evanston Township High School auditorium so that, while only two or three candidates ..

But Senate debate on the bill has dragged on this week, with two main hurdles still on the road ahead to passage of the Laken Riley Act, which would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

The two institutions participated in the California University and College Ballot Bowl, an informal competition where campuses employ initiatives designed to encourage civic engagement and voter ...

Its inclusion in the Constitution would offer critical protections to women’s rights. For example, even though the Equal Pay Act has been instrumental in addressing wage disparities, it remains ...

Last week, the U.S. House passed its first bill, the Laken Riley Act, beginning the new year with ... of law and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Duke Law. Elana Fogel is an assistant ...

Those are some of the findings from new data released Jan. 16 by the U.S. Department of Education’s office for civil rights ... not have a school counselor. Two percent of the schools with ...

Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) got into a heated exchange during a Tuesday Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing and discussion about civil rights and ...