All posts tagged "north carolina"
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EQUALITY
NC Cop Caught On Body Cam Choking, Beating Black Man Over Suspected Jaywalking To Face Charges
March 9, 2018Christopher Hickman, a 31-year-old police officer in Asheville, North Carolina, who resigned in January after being...
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DEMOCRACY
Supreme Court Temporarily Freezes Redrawing Of ‘Unconstitutional’ North Carolina Congressional Maps
January 18, 2018The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring North Carolina lawmakers to...
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DEMOCRACY
Court Rejects GOP Request To Block Ruling Declaring NC’s Congressional Map Unconstitutional
January 16, 2018A three-judge district court on Tuesday rejected a request by Republican lawmakers in North Carolina to...
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Authoritarianism
Federal Court Orders North Carolina To Redraw ‘Unconstitutional’ Congressional District Maps
January 9, 2018A federal court has ordered North Carolina’s GOP-controlled state legislature to once again redraw the state’s...
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Authoritarianism
Trump Judicial Nominee ‘A Product Of The Modern White Supremacist Machine,’ Says Civil Rights Leader
December 27, 2017Civil rights leader William Barber II, the president of North Carolina’s NAACP, blasted President Trump‘s nominee for...
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NEWS
Trump Remains Silent 7 Days After North Carolina Airport Bomber Arrest: He Wanted ‘To Fight A War On U.S. Soil’
October 12, 2017It’s the tale of the tweet that never came. Donald Trump has remained completely silent nearly...
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DEMOCRACY
Republican Candidate For Charlotte Mayor Lists Being ‘White’ And ‘Smart’ Among Her Qualifications
September 6, 2017Former Mecklenburg County magistrate Kimberley Paige Barnette, a Republican candidate for mayor in Charlotte, N.C., listed...
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NEWS
NC Governor Calls For Removal Of All Confederate Monuments On State Property
August 15, 2017Gov. Roy Cooper released an op-ed Tuesday afternoon where he called for the removal of all...
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NEWS
NC Protesters Topple 100-Year-Old Statue Dedicated To “The Confederate States of America”
August 14, 2017Protestors in Durham, North Carolina joined forces to topple a nearly 100-year-old monument in Durham that was...
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DEMOCRACY
NC Governor Calls Special Session To Redraw Unconstitutional, Racially Gerrymandered Districts
June 8, 2017North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) will call the Republican-led state legislature into special session in...
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Authoritarianism
Supreme Court Once Again Strikes Down Racially Gerrymandered NC Legislative Districts
June 5, 2017The Supreme Court upheld on Monday a lower court’s decision to throw out state legislative district...
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DEMOCRACY
Supreme Court Rules Against North Carolina In Racial Gerrymandering Case
May 22, 2017The Supreme Court ruled Monday that North Carolina illegally packed black voters into two voting districts....
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DEMOCRACY
North Carolina Republicans Pass Bill To Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters With Their Cars
April 27, 2017Republicans in North Carolina’s House of Representatives introduced a bill that would grant legal protections for...