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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 鈥淪ylvia Mendez Newcomers School鈥� 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 鈥淯ntold Stories of the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Places of Northeastern North Carolina: A Research Study鈥� wants residents who took part in the struggle in that region between the years 1941 and 1976.

The state鈥檚 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.

A bronze statue honoring Julius Chambers was unveiled over the weekend along the Little Sugar Creek Greenway. Chambers鈥� statue is part of the Trail of History, a collection of statues commemorating the lives of people important to the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

The Museum of Durham History is displaying the sign for Royal Ice Cream, the site of a 1957 sit-in, the state's first civil rights sit-in.

When John Hope Franklin chaired former President Bill Clinton's initiative on race in the 1990s, he started with what he called "the naivete that often鈥�