Civil Rights Movement

William Barber, Founding Director, Repairers Of The Breach & The Yale Center For Public Theology And Public Policy speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 in New York. Barber was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation's largest movie theater chain.

Civil rights leader removed from movie theater for using his own chair

Associated Press

A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons.

A new mural at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute honoring the children who marched and died during the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama.

Race & Demographics

60 years later, communities remember the 'Four Little Girls' killed in Birmingham

Leoneda Inge

60 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1963, "Four Little Girls" were killed in a bombing set by the Ku Klux Klan at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Some who lived through the trauma wonder if anything has changed.

A bronze statue of Martin Luther King Jr. stands in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Politics

NC lawmakers want more monuments honoring Civil Rights leaders

Will Michaels

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill that would start the process of building more public monuments dedicated to civil rights icons.

Activist Bayard Rustin points to a map during a press conference four days ahead of the March on Washington in August 1963.

Race & Demographics

Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

Associated Press

They were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after launching the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws, which mandated segregation on buses.

Race & Demographics

UNC Greensboro Builds A Visual History Of Unsung Heroes

Amanda Magnus

Many people know the role that Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. played in the fight for civil rights. But what about Willena Cannon, a student at…

News

WATCH: John Lewis Funeral At Ebenezer Baptist Church

NPR News

Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church will host a celebration of life Thursday for Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a longtime congressman and leader in the…

Race & Demographics

SNCC Turns 60 With Co-Founder Rev. David C. Forbes

Grant Holub-Moorman

David Forbes arrived at Shaw University in 1958. In the winter of his sophomore year, the Civil Rights movement swept through North Carolina when four…

Race & Demographics

SNCC Turns 60 With Co-Founder Rev. David C. Forbes

Grant Holub-Moorman

David Forbes arrived at Shaw University in 1958. In the winter of his sophomore year, the Civil Rights movement swept through North Carolina when four…

A bronze statue of four young men walking forward shoulder-to-shoulder with a blue sky behind them

Race & Demographics

The Catalyst That Created A Movement: 60 Years After The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Amanda Magnus

On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch…

Race & Demographics

The Catalyst That Created A Movement: 60 Years After The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Amanda Magnus

On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch…