Racism

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.

WUNC's Will Michaels talks with Thomas McLaurin, George Floyd's cousin and executive director of the Floyd Family Center for Social Equity, about the organization's mission.

BYU issued the results of its investigation into the Aug. 26 match, reiterating it will not tolerate conduct threatening any student-athlete. As a result of the investigation, the university says it has lifted a ban on a fan who was identified as directing racial slurs toward Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson during the match.

After the mayor of Enfield, North Carolina, ordered the bulldozing of a local Confederate monument, he's been the target of a state investigation and racist hate mail. But he says the experience is also part of a new chapter in his life as a community organizer and activist.

In June 2021, New York police sent the suspect to a hospital for an evaluation after he made a threat at his school. Then, he fell off of law enforcement's radar and bought a rifle earlier this year.

About 100 people attended a service to honor the memories of five people who were lynched in the county more than a century ago.

The suspect allegedly wrote a 180-page document filled with hateful rants about race and ties to the conspiracy theory, "great replacement."

The incident happened earlier this month at an elementary school in Goldston.

Parents denounced the incident during public comment at Monday night's school board meeting, and dozens of community members rallied outside the meeting.

WUNC’s 2021 Youth Reporters turned on their microphones to collect stories from their communities. Kayla Mady of Holly Springs, North Carolina talked to her best friend about how the pandemic has impacted their social skills as extroverts.