Here’s a trend I’d like to see take off in 2016 – minding your own business. In the social media era, that may be impossible,…

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High school football is huge in the south, especially in North Carolina. In 1964 in the small town of Hickory, history was made when the…

A solider gave his 8-year-old son a yearbook photo to remember when he surprised him in the most adorable way possible. Army Corporal James Bass surprised his…

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…

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  Ty Turner, a black LGBT activist and former North Carolina state Senate candidate was detained by police Monday after placing voting rights flyers on cars in a…

Last Friday, a judge denied a preliminary injunction, which would have staved off the state’s voter suppression law, H.B. 589, from this November’s general elections.…

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LGBT Center’s 26-Year-Old First Black Chair Faces Racial Hostility According to North Carolina’s Charlotte Post, the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte has elected Ranzeno Frazier as…

On Monday, a preliminary injunction hearing was held in North Carolina, regarding the state’s voter laws and what opponents state are blatant discriminatory practices. Appearing…

As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this week, a new fight for voting rights…

Before you panic, this incident happened many years ago.  I grew up in North Carolina and for some reason, my friends and I had a conversation which I have shared many times over the years.  I grew up in a small town called Clinton.   During the Cold War years, we came to the reality that […]

Blake Brockington (pictured) recently made history when he became the first transgender teen in the state of North Carolina to be crowned homecoming king, according…