For more than four decades North Carolina’s statewide eugenics program forcibly sterilized almost 7,600 people — many of whom were Black. That wasn’t a coincidence, according to a new ...

Donn Young Contributed Here is The News & Observer’s ongoing coverage of efforts to preserve buildings and sites to share the history of Black people in North Carolina. Her mother used to talk ...

a Wake County death penalty case is exposing the reality that Black people’s right to be represented in the jury box is still under threat in North Carolina. Brandon Xavier Hill, a capital ...

N.C. On a beautiful fall morning in Marion, North Carolina, about a half hour drive east of Asheville, Tracy Grit jumps into his Ford Explorer. He drives over train tracks, past Baptist church ...