George Floyd

Paint And Poems: Combating Racial Injustice Through Art

吉彩网网站 Youth Reporter Manzili Kokayi highlights how local artists and activists are producing art during lockdown to cope with and amplify the lives taken鈥�

A statue on the ground with yellow caution tape and a cone on it.

Race, Class & Communities

Summer Of Racial Reckoning NPR Special: Part Three

Ailsa Chang

Months into a global pandemic, a loud cry for racial justice erupted around the country and the world. Protesters took to the streets demanding an end to鈥�

A large group of protesters kneeling in the street in downtown Greensboro.

Race, Class & Communities

Summer Of Racial Reckoning NPR Special: Part Two

Ailsa Chang

Months into a global pandemic, a loud cry for racial justice erupted around the country and the world. Protesters took to the streets demanding an end to鈥�

Race, Class & Communities

Report: Raleigh Police Used Expired Tear Gas, Arrested 106 From Protests

Rebecca Martinez

Raleigh police used expired tear gas on demonstrators during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to a report鈥�

A crowd of protesters, many of them masked, sit in the street in Raleigh.

Race, Class & Communities

Summer Of Racial Reckoning NPR Special: Part One

Ailsa Chang

Months into a global pandemic, a loud cry for racial justice erupted around the country and the world. Protesters took to the streets demanding an end to鈥�

Race, Class & Communities

Summer Of Racial Reckoning NPR Special: Part One

Ailsa Chang

Months into a global pandemic, a loud cry for racial justice erupted around the country and the world. Protesters took to the streets demanding an end to鈥�

Law

'Unprecedented' Number Of Asheville Officers Have Resigned

Associated Press

Thirty-one police officers in the western North Carolina city of Asheville have resigned from the force since June.Police Chief David Zack told The鈥�

Race, Class & Communities

Asheville May Remove Slave-Owner Names From Some Streets

Associated Press

The North Carolina city of Asheville is considering removing the names of slave owners and other people associated with discrimination from some streets鈥�

Race, Class & Communities

Abolish The Police To Bolster The Community, Says Raleigh Activist

Laura Pellicer

When she's not teaching English at Louisburg College, Taari Coleman can often be found on the streets of Raleigh, megaphone in hand. She is a founding鈥�

Federal agents disperse protesters near the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on Monday in Portland, Ore. State and local officials say the federal law enforcement officers have incited violence in the city.

'They Just Started Waling On Me': Violence In Portland As U.S. Agents Clamp Down

Laurel Wamsley

A new image of the federal response in Oregon has gone viral: a video showing 53-year-old Navy veteran Christopher David being struck repeatedly with a baton by a federal law enforcement officer.