A North Carolina congressman is demanding answers from the Department of Defense for its lack of response to questions surrounding the forced ouster of a Marine Corps Reserve officer who sent classified material to warn Marines ...

Progressive groups are announcing a plan for a voter engagement campaign on the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. ...

Marshall announced on Thursday that her office this month received almost $370,000 from the U.S. Justice Department. That money will support efforts to fight trafficking in counterfeit trademarked items. ...

BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL   The NC NAACP has welcomed the “Journey for Justice” marchers to North Carolina amid vile racist threats that have thrown caution toward their activities. The Wilmington Journal has learned that during the state registration process by which the civil rights organizations invited locals to join the national march through the North Carolina leg of its 860-mil ...

"We believe the decision not to retry the case is unconscionable." ...

The memorial service for Lennon Lee Lacy is scheduled for this Friday, August 28th, 7 p.m. at First Missionary Baptist Church, 521 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Bladenboro. ...

According to the report, “65,897 black students were suspended from North Carolina K-12 public schools in a single academic year (2011-2012). Blacks were 26 percent of students in school districts across the state, but comprised 51 percent of suspensions and 38 percent of expulsions.” ...

BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL   The outrage continues to grow after the NC Court of Appeals this week, in an unanimous opinion by a three-judge panel, ruled that the family members of Connie Tindall, Ann Sheppard, William “Joe” Wright and Jerry Jacobs – four deceased members of the Wilmington Ten, will not be awarded compensation for their false imprisonment and years of suffering. Their f ...

BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL It was 52 years ago in 1963, when civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was delivering a stirring speech during the historic March on Washington about jobs, equality and freedom, when his close friend, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, called out to him from those gathered to say something about his “dream.” King put the rest of his prepared text aside, looke ...

SPECIAL TO THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL RALEIGH, NC - This week, the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to pass the “Historical Artifact and Patriotism Act,” which makes it virtually impossible for local communities to move Confederate monuments. The measure, which came out of the House Homeland Security Committee, was fast-tracked to Gov. McCrory’s desk to be signed. The NC NAACP and Forward Together ...