Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee have been working to get Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, renamed to its traditional Cherokee name. Tribal council voted unanimously in favor of the next step in the process.

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.

Over 80 years ago, Walter Morris created the 555th Airborne Platoon, also known as the “Triple Nickles.” There is an exhibit about them at a museum on Fort Liberty - formerly known as Fort Bragg. There’s another exhibit at a Fayetteville Museum that will soon serve as one of 50 markers on the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail.

UNC-Chapel Hill student Shristi Sharma grew up in a small town in Iowa, believing she was American — until a conversation with her father during middle school changed everything she knew about her life.

Fayetteville nonprofit Healthy Child and Adolescent Network, formerly known as Bicycle Man, aims to give away 500 bikes for their annual giveaway this Saturday to benefit children from low-income families. But with only 100 bikes in stock, they're asking for help to reach that goal in just a few days.

Due to a massive backlog in employment-based green card applications, Indian nationals who’ve applied for green cards are often waiting many years to receive permanent residency status in the U.S. The long wait has impacted many Indian tech workers in North Carolina’s Triangle and also a growing number of college students whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were young children.

Army Private Booker T. Spicely was shot by a white bus driver after Spicely complained about having to sit in the back.

North Carolina’s immigrant residents face a range of challenges such as language barriers, complex eligibility rules and discriminatory treatment when interacting with government agencies.

As the Asian American population grows in the South – along with national awareness of anti-Asian violence – the works of Asian American artists have become more visible in art galleries and public spaces in North Carolina. What they have in common is how they express pride in the artists’ identity and experiences as Asian Americans.

The Wake County Register of Deeds Office is seeking volunteers for a project to help find and archive racially restrictive covenants that prevented largely African Americans, as well as people of other ethnic and minority groups, from buying or living on certain land in Wake County.