Civil Rights

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.

One of the most famous speeches in world was given by Martin Luther King Jr. 60 years ago at the Civil Rights March on Washington. But did you know King first gave part of his "I Have a Dream" speech months earlier, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina?

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

The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission is working to extend the trail and more Black history stories across the state.

In July, Ocean City will be honored with a historical marker from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the N.C. African American Heritage Commission.

On Tuesday, the Guilford County Schools Board of Education approved the name “Sylvia Mendez Newcomers School” for a future High Point school. The board also voted to name a new K-8 school after Katherine Johnson, one of several Black women who played crucial roles as NASA mathematicians.

The decisions, which come after a Court of Appeals ruling in December also siding with the state, appear to mean Barber's second-degree trespass conviction is final.

Grant Edward Olson Jr., of Asheville, North Carolina, is also accused of intimidating Sellers for exercising his civil rights as an attorney, television commentator and lobbyist. Authorities say Olson sent dozens of messages to Sellers on Instagram that included racial slurs and indications that Olson was armed.

The project titled “Untold Stories of the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Places of Northeastern North Carolina: A Research Study” wants residents who took part in the struggle in that region between the years 1941 and 1976.

The state’s first African American-owned transportation company was formed in the mid-1920s and it continued operating until 1972 when it became part of the Winston Salem Transit Authority.