north carolina
August 2, 2013 -
In legislatures from North Carolina to Texas, lawmakers are targeting women's constitutional right to end unwanted pregnancies.
August 2, 2013 -
With anger still simmering over what North Carolina's ultraconservative legislature has wrought, organizers of the Moral Monday protests that have led to the arrests of over 900 people for civil disobedience are taking the movement to communities across the state.
July 31, 2013 -
From Arkansas to North Carolina, Mississippi to Florida, elected leaders are speaking out and taking action against laws that would restrict citizens' access to the ballot.
July 30, 2013 -
The NAACP is asking the state supreme court to throw out political district lines that it says were improperly shaped by race -- and it's willing to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
July 29, 2013 -
A bill that would have allowed North Carolina to issue fracking permits before all of the regulations were in place failed to pass, but lawmakers approved a measure that requires the state to join with Virginia and South Carolina to promote offshore energy development.
July 26, 2013 -
The Republican-controlled N.C. legislature has passed the nation's most restrictive voting bill, but voters are fighting back -- and may get help from the U.S. Justice Department.
July 25, 2013 -
North Carolina lawmakers are poised to pass the harshest voter photo ID law in the nation -- an effort that's been met with protests from voting rights advocates and talk of a possible lawsuit by the federal government.