For more than 100 years, “Silent Sam,” a bronze statue representing a Confederate soldier, stood vigil on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

We all have our ways to detox and unwind. For some people, it’s taking a well-deserved nap, for others it’s maybe a little retail therapy, for me, it’s yoga, and for Kandice Mason, it’s pole dancing.

A Pineville, North Carolina mom of two, who is weeks away from giving birth to twins, is outraged and humiliated after she says she was accused of trying to shoplift items under her shirt at her local Staples.

On Monday, the Supreme Court made two notable decisions related to voting and voting rights that promise major ramifications for the 2018 midterms and beyond.

So apparently, police in North Carolina did not arrest, shoot, throw to the ground, choke or lay one (trigger-happy) finger on a woman who broke a window—at an airport; that’s right, an airport—because she was upset that her flight was canceled.

The childhood home where famed singer and civil rights icon Nina Simone was born has suffered through failed restoration attempts over the years and currently sits in terrible shape, complete with crumbling ceilings and sagging floorboards.

The cultural significance and impact of Black Panther will never die, but the superhero has a special place in the heart of one 10-year-old from Raleigh, N.C., as the movie became the theme for his custom prosthetic leg.

Updated: Monday, May 14, 2018, 4:50 p.m. EDT: Attorneys representing 22-year-old Anthony Wall, who was choked by a police officer at a Waffle House in early May, say that the young man was the subject of homophobic slurs from Waffle House employees.

Here’s the good news: This is a story involving white women that has nothing to do with calling the police on black people for horrendously trivial reasons!

Sometimes you just want to be able to use a coupon to save on a pizza deal, but if you’re a black man trying to use a coupon at a North Carolina Pizza Inn, you may be out of luck. Unless you have your handy-dandy “racism support human,” also known as a white friend, to run interference.

When you hear stories about black high school seniors getting into the colleges of their dreams, they’re usually touting Ivy League schools. But Greensboro, N.C., high school senior Jasmine Harrison, who was accepted at 113 colleges and awarded $4.5 million in scholarships, is taking her talents to Bennett College on…

Gary Shipman is a North Carolina politician vying for the Democratic nomination and the chance to challenge Republican Rep. Holly Grange for her seat in the North Carolina General Assembly.

Silence shrouded information about a family’s past, and those who could provide answers are deceased. Fortunately, there’s a paper trail.

A North Carolina mom is furious after her teenage daughter was pulled off of a school bus and left at school alone for wearing “inappropriate clothing” ... that showed her clavicle.

Family lore about a great-grandparent’s interracial relationship lines up with clues in census records.

We all know that charges mean nothing in this criminal-justice world, especially when it pertains to police officers, but it’s as good a place as any to start, and so far, it seems as if Asheville, N.C., Police Officer Christopher Hickman will be facing some pretty serious charges for his part in the brutal beating of…

The incident occurred in August of last year, but it was only earlier this week, on Wednesday, that police bodycam footage was obtained by the Citizen Times showing the brutal beating of Johnnie Jermaine Rush at the hands of Asheville, N.C., Police Officer Chris Hickman.

A North Carolina man was shot and killed while recording on Facebook Live, leaving a string of clues for investigators.

A North Carolina man who warned 911 operators that he was going to kill the “hoodlums” in his neighborhood who had the “devil in them” was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

There were 12 defendants charged in connection with the Aug. 14, 2017, toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., and by Tuesday afternoon, the charges had been dropped against all of them, ending what one local attorney described as “a waste of taxpayer money in the name of the Confederacy, of all things.”