The U.S. Department of Justice is among groups suing two Southern states for alleging drawing voting district maps that discriminate against people of color, but lawmakers in the Republican-led states said they drew the maps race-blind. Texas and North Carolina redistricting leaders said they did […]
The first African American floor broker in the New York Stock Exchange passed at the age of 79 late last month. Joseph L. Searles lll died on July 26, 2021, after numerous successes in his personal and professional life. Searles was born in Asheville, North Carolina, […]
An 18-year-old Black man was fatally shot by a cop at a funeral in North Carolina last November, and the man’s surviving family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming he was only trying to protect a mother and her son during a drive by […]
A white woman almost ran over two Black women who were peacefully protesting in Elizabeth City, N.C. In the small North Carolina town where Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally shot by police last month, protesters gather often for daily demonstrations. On May 24, motorist Lisa Michelle O’Quinn […]
The fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by North Carolina deputies was “justified” because he posed “an immediate threat to others,” prosecutors said Tuesday, as new police body camera footage showing the deadly encounter was released. “This case clearly illustrates the officers who used deadly force […]
