Formerly Incarcerated Raleigh Activist Buys NC Prison
Kerwin Pittman purchased the abandoned Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro to to create re-entry housing and a workforce campus for people who have served time.
Things to Do This Weekend in the Triangle
Broadway, brewing, and Black history.
“What Will It Take for the City of Raleigh to Value Black Lives?” Residents Ask for an Oversight Board to Hold Police Accountable
Residents calling for a community oversight board to hold police accountable for what they believe are racist practices got into a heated exchange with Mayor Nancy McFarlane at last night’s Raleigh City Council meeting. Ten residents signed up to speak on the topic of policing, addressing police brutality, mental health, and immigration, among other things,…
ICE, U.S. DOJ Subpoena Voting Records From State, Forty-Four N.C. Counties
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sift through millions of voter records in an apparent “fishing exhibition” after subpoenaing poll books, voting records, and executed ballots last week. Assistant U.S. attorney Sebastian Kielmanovich issued the subpoenas Thursday to forty-four counties in North Carolina’s federal Eastern District, including Wake County. The probe spans five years, including…
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North Carolina’s Minimum Wage Needs to Be Raised. Local Living Wage Businesses Aren’t Waiting.
Just $4,916.00: that’s the amount you have to live on for an entire year if you earn minimum wage and rent a one-bedroom apartment in Durham County. How does that calculation work? Simple math: $15,080.00 is what a business can get away with paying a full-time worker at the current $7.25 minimum wage; $10,164 is…
Video: Watch Supporters and Opponents of Silent Sam Square Off on UNC-Chapel Hill’s Campus
Last night, about forty supporters of Silent Sam gathered at the base of the toppled monument on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, where they were met by a good deal more counterprotesters. Before the night was out, three people were arrested, and the cops had deployed lots and lots of pepper spray. You can read UNC…
Cooper Files New Lawsuit Challenging the NCGA’s Constitutional Amendment Do-Overs. The NAACP Will Follow Suit.
The NAACP plans to file a second lawsuit after the state Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the NAACP and Governor Cooper’s efforts to remove the rewritten proposed constitutional amendments from the November ballot as part of lawsuits filed against the original amendments. Ballot printing is currently being delayed by the courts as several legal issues are…
At a Press Conference, Muslims for Social Justice Denounce What They Say Is All-Too-Common Islamophobia
A blind man who claims his bag was removed from a plane while he was using the bathroom and a mother who said she was denied visitation to her incarcerated son after refusing to remove her hijab say they have one thing in common: They are victims of systemic Islamophobia. Muslims for Social Justice held…
NCGA Forms Subcommittees to Investigate Cooper on Hurricane Relief, Atlantic Coast Pipeline Funds
Republicans in the legislature took another swing at Governor Cooper Wednesday, creating two subcommittees to investigate his handling of the Hurricane Matthew relief effort and a $57.8 million discretionary fund for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. While some Democrats questioned the need for the probes, Republicans were adamant that both issues required further examination, doing little…
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