History
May 28, 2012 -
The tradition behind Memorial Day can be traced back to 1865, when former slaves in Charleston, S.C. held a funeral procession to honor Union soldiers who died in a local Confederate prison camp.
May 23, 2012 -
A new documentary produced by students at Duke University in collaboration with the voting-rights watchdog group Democracy NC puts recent laws restricting the minority vote in historical context.
March 21, 2012 -
Most Mississippians may call themselves conservatives, but talk to them for five minutes and you'll hear William Jennings Bryan-style populism.
March 7, 2012 -
Just as Southern preachers once served as tools of mill owners to keep workers pliant and passive, the religious right today is also a tool for the oil barons and Wall Street types who truly rule.
February 21, 2012 -
Wake County, N.C. Commission Chair Paul Coble, who is running for Congress, led an effort to support a constitutional ban on gay marriage. He is also battling a sustainability initiative that he suggests is part of a shadowy United Nations plot to take over the world.
February 3, 2012 -
A group in Gaston County, N.C. is determined to keep alive the memory of the labor leader, who was murdered in 1929 after crossing racial lines in her effort to unionize a local textile mill.
February 1, 2012 -
Few realize Black History Month's ties to the history of coal miners in West Virginia. And as mountaintop removal mining continues there, that history is in danger of being erased.