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Durham City Council begins spelling out views on police issues

Council begins spelling out views on police issues This piece first appeared on the Herald-Sun website on Sep. 02, 2014 @ 10:44 PM Ray Gronberg…

NC Schools Backtrack on Promise to Undocumented Students

In May 2014 North Carolina Superintendent of Schools June Atkinson made a strong commitment to ensuring access to public education to all of North Carolina’s…

Civil Rights Advocates Urge North Carolina Schools to Ensure Access for Immigrant Students

  Civil Rights Advocates Urge North Carolina School Districts to Ensure Immigrant Students are not Denied Enrollment Groups Urge Department of Justice to Take Action…

City Council Decisions On Durham Police Department

This radio interview originally aired on WUNC’s The State of Things on September 2, 2014 City Council Decisions On Durham Police Department    Listen to…

Court to weigh use of race in drawing political lines

Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 2:49 p.m. EDT September 1, 2014
WASHINGTON — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state…

State asks court to deny appeal of ruling on voting law

This news piece is in response to the request by SCSJ, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, to reverse the…

Prisons and police culture gone rogue

This post originally appeared in the St Louis American
By Christi Griffin
There are few who did not rise to the occasion, who did not…

Daryl Atkinson Interviewed on To the Point about Ban the Box

After 20 years of being “tough on crime,” local cops have arrested almost one third of all Americans. Their records are easily available to banks,…

A look at NC's modern-day poll taxes

The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1964, prohibiting the government from issuing taxes on voting participation in federal elections. The…

Women’s Equality Day Comes to North Carolina, Amid the Moral Week of Action

Reposted from RH Reality Check
by Emma Akpan
August 26, 2014 Organizers thought it was important to incorporate Women’s Equality Day in the Moral Week…

The truth about voter fraud truthers

This post is a response to Ron Christie’s recent article, “Hey Eric Holder: Voter ID Isn’t Stuck in 1965.”
The truth about voter fraud truthers…

Amicus brief filed in Alabama redistricting case

This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a redistricting case from Alabama that is likely to have implications for the constitutionality…