Tom Foreman Jr.
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Feds to investigate Maryland State Police hiring practices
The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the Maryland State Police to determine if the agency engaged in racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, federal prosecutors announced Friday. → Read More
EEOC: 2 fired for not joining company Christian prayer
A lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims two employees with a North Carolina company say they were fired after refusing to participate in the firm’s daily Christian devotionals → Read More
'Victory:' Transgender people can correct sex on NC birth records without surgery
Transgender people born in North Carolina may now correct the sex designation on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery after a consent judgment issued by a federal court, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Thursday. → Read More
Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws had their convictions posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later. → Read More
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men had their convictions vacated posthumously → Read More
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later. → Read More
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later. → Read More
$3M settlement reached in lawsuit over Black man's death
A North Carolina sheriff's office announced a $3 million settlement on Monday in a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed in his car by sheriff’s deputies more than a year ago. → Read More
$3M settlement reached in lawsuit over Black man's death
A North Carolina sheriff’s office has announced a $3 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies more than a year ago → Read More
Maggie Peterson, famous for “The Andy Griffith Show,” dies
Maggie Peterson, whose character on “The Andy Griffith Show” developed a memorable infatuation with Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor, has died, her family said Monday. She was 81. → Read More
Hope Solo postpones induction to Soccer Hall of Fame after DWI, child endangerment charges
Solo was arrested in March after reportedly being found passed out in her car with her kids inside. → Read More
Historic Black town lies one hurricane away from disaster
PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — As she exits her hometown’s only restaurant clutching an order of cabbage and hush puppies, Carolyn Suggs Bandy pauses to boast about a place that stakes its cl… → Read More
Buffeted by weather, a historic Black town strives to endure
Historic Princeville, on the banks of the Tar River in eastern North Carolina, is one hurricane away from disaster → Read More
Buffeted by weather, a historic Black town strives to endure
As she exits her hometown’s only restaurant clutching an order of cabbage and hush puppies, Carolyn Suggs Bandy pauses to boast about a place that stakes its claim as the oldest town chartered by Black Americans nearly 140 years ago. → Read More
Group fighting school admissions policy goes to SCOTUS
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday called for a response from a Virginia school system regarding a controversial admissions policy at a highly selective high school and efforts by a coalition of parents to overturn it → Read More
Hope Solo arrested on DWI, child abuse charges
Police say former U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside → Read More
Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns
Thousands of evacuated residents are still barred from going home. → Read More
Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns
An uncontrolled fire at a fertilizer plant in North Carolina continued to burn early Wednesday, forcing firefighters and thousands of evacuated residents to remain at least a mile (1.6 kilometers) away because there could be a large explosion. → Read More
Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns
Thousands of evacuated residents are still barred from going home. → Read More
Some SC Black Dems want Biden to 'try a little bit harder'
COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) — Joe Biden's run for the Democratic presidential nomination was all but declared dead as he headed to the South Carolina primary in late February 2020. He had finished fifth in New Hampshire and fourth in Iowa. Still, Biden advised skeptics to withhold judgment until a state with a large pool of Black voters, the most reliable Democratic constituency, had a chance to weigh… → Read More