Civil Rights

Bryan Stevenson takes on cases to exonerate people wrongfully convicted. "One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them un

One Lawyer's Fight For Young Blacks And 'Just Mercy'

3:59pm October 20, 2014

When police pulled a gun on Bryan Stevenson as he was sitting quietly in his car in Atlanta, he knew he had to effect change. His memoir describes his attempts, including freeing men on death row.

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Crime

Alamance County Racial Profiling Case Enters Second Week

4:56pm August 19, 2014

An Alamance County Sheriff who is accused of racial profiling is on trial this week in Winston-Salem.

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(From left) Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain, two of the Greensboro Four who the day before had sat at the "whites only" counter of a Woolworth store, came back on Feb. 2, 1960, with two others — Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson.

National

Franklin McCain, One Of 'Greensboro Four,' Dies

2:08pm January 10, 2014

by Mark Memmott

In February 1960, four young black men sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina. Their protest would be followed by others across the nation and become a key moment in the civil rights movement. McCain once said that he wasn't scared. He was angry.

Politics & Government

Triad Residents Remember Nelson Mandela

4:18pm December 08, 2013

Nelson Mandela has been an inspiration to many social activists in the Triad.

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Human Interest

We Are Overcoming, Today

11:09am August 26, 2013

This week, people from across the United States are marking the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C.

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