Two weeks after Raleigh police officer D.C. Twiddy shot and killed Akiel Denkins in southeast Raleigh, the city council voted to purchase six hundred body cameras and put them on the street over the next three years. They’re still working through the details; local activist Akiba Byrd, of the Police Accountability Community Taskforce, says that […]
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Pat McCrory Blames Everybody but Himself after the NBA Pulls the All-Star Game from Charlotte over HB 2
As you probably know by now, the NBA moved the All-Star Game out of Charlotte last week, and Republicans sure are pissed about itespecially the governor, who blasted the media, activists, and the “sports and entertainment elite” for the NBA’s decision. Chris Sgro, the Equality NC director who served in the short session as a […]
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Someone at the DNC Called Our Coward Governor a “Moronic Little Bigot,” Get the Tissues
WSOC in Charlotte has a story out today with a North Carolina spin on the Democratic National Committee’s embarrassing email scandal. Fortunately, they let the North Carolina Republican Party dominate the narrative, which is that calling Pat McCrory a “moronic little bigot of a tarheel (sic) governor” is the worst thing you could ever imagine. […]
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The Morning Roundup: Stumbling Into Philadelphia
Good morning, hope you stayed cool over the weekend.1. The DNC starts. First off, Hillary Clinton picked her VP nominee, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. Kaine is a former DNC chair and governor of Virginia. Here’s some of his bonafides: Kaine has a solid record on many core Democratic issues. He supports President Obama’s Affordable […]
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Dan Forest Says We “Misunderstand” HB 2
Yesterday, we asked Lt. Governor Dan Forest for a response to the NBA pulling the All-Star Game out of Charlotte, and if he still agrees with his press secretary’s comments (in a March 24 email obtained in a public records request) about the NBA: “Hey NBA…Time warner arena can let transgenders (sic) in their bathrooms […]
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Pat McCrory Has Lost It
The NBA moved the NBA All Star game out of Charlotte yesterday, and Republicans sure are pissed about it. The office of Lt. Gov. Dan Forest sent us a statement riddled with errors and fearmongering after we posted our original story about it yesterday, but it turns out Forest isn’t the only one losing his […]
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Charlotte Is Losing the All-Star Game
We sort of knew this was coming when the legislature’s plans to “fix” HB 2 fell apart at the end of the session, but now it’s (nearly) confirmed: the NBA is moving the 2017 All-Star game out of Charlotte. Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports (emphasis ours): A formal announcement on the NBA’s withdrawal out of […]
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The KKK Comes to Raleigh. Thanks, Trump!
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of active hate groups in the United States, there are eight separate organizations operating under the Ku Klux Klan banner in North Carolina. One of them dropped flyers in the Raleigh neighborhood of Oakwood on Sunday, as part of a seemingly coordinated literature campaign throughout the United […]
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The Morning Roundup: What Have We Done?
Good morning. Burn it all. 1. The KKK in…Oakwood? The KKK did a literature drop in Oakwood on Sunday. From our story posted last night about it: The flyers are attributed to the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which calls itself “the most active and biggest Klan in America.” That group’s leader, […]
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KKK Drops Flyers In Raleigh Neighborhood As Part of Seemingly Coordinated National Campaign
Warning: some of the links in this post redirect to stories with images of racist material. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of active hate groups in the United States, there are eight separate organizations operating under the Ku Klux Klan name in North Carolina. One of them dropped flyers in the Raleigh […]