One of these forms of exploitation that Rev. Jackson notes is the high cost of making a phone call in the Cook County Jail. In Cook County jails, prisoners are charged as much as $15 a call to be in touch with their relatives. ...

The War on Drugs is a racially biased policy and strategy. It is the new Jim Crow,” Daniels said. ...

Voller called on McCrory to, “…to rein in this radical, reactionary state legislature.” ...

Most economists agree that the drop is attributable to nearly half a million workers exiting the labor force. ...

The complaint sent this week to Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat, names Gov. Pat McCrory (R), members of the state Mining and Energy Commission, and members of the Republican-controlled General Assembly. ...

The Memphis-area community – joined by numerous others from various places around the nation – showed up Wednesday night. ...

A WPD K-9 officer and WPD investigators were able to stop the vehicle on Independence Boulevard and remove the passenger, Roy Augusta Smith II, and the female driver, Shanita Wynette Reid. Both were arrested. ...

It's all hands on deck across the state to fight what it calls the “extreme attacks on voting rights and human dignity in many forms by the current leadership of the NC General Assembly.” ...

In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a “significant” moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to members of the Wilmington Ten. ...

"We want to raise awareness of the damage being done to the planet through pollution. " says Audri Scott Williams ...