EDITOR’S NOTE: West Marion is in McDowell County ... 2020 marked the first year that Black Americans became more likely to die of an opioid overdose than white Americans. In North Carolina, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...