For more than four decades North Carolina’s statewide eugenics program forcibly sterilized almost 7,600 people — many of whom were Black. That wasn’t a coincidence, according to a new ...

North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson has an unconventional proposal to end the reparations debate once and for all. What if instead of Black Americans being compensated for the atrocities of ...

Donn Young Contributed Here is The News & Observer’s ongoing coverage of efforts to preserve buildings and sites to share the history of Black people in North Carolina. Her mother used to talk ...

a Wake County death penalty case is exposing the reality that Black people’s right to be represented in the jury box is still under threat in North Carolina. Brandon Xavier Hill, a capital ...

N.C. On a beautiful fall morning in Marion, North Carolina, about a half hour drive east of Asheville, Tracy Grit jumps into his Ford Explorer. He drives over train tracks, past Baptist church ...