BLACK MOUNTAIN – Both violent and property crimes decreased in Black Mountain in 2024, according to Police Chief Steve Parker. Parker provided Black Mountain News with data from 2024 Feb. 6.

I am proud of her for wanting to do that. Back then being an African American and a woman in the military, they looked down ...

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

Between 1896 and 1902, the number of Black voters registered in North Carolina fell from 126,000 to 6,100. Wilmington did not elect another Black candidate until 1972. The violence in Wilmington ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what ...