A settlement agreement reached today should prevent future First Amendment violations by Alamance County officials against peaceful protesters, lawyers have announced. Members of the Alamance County NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs filed suit last summer after Alamance County illegally ...

"Today’s verdict convicting Derek Chauvin of murder is a rare act of police accountability, but it cannot bring George Floyd back. Mr. Floyd’s family and community will forever feel his loss.

This week,  Hillsborough, Carrboro, and Chapel-Hill became the first municipalities to pass LGBTQ protection ordinances after the expiration of a state ban prohibiting local governments from enacting anti-discrimination policies.