BOLIVIA, N.C. – Today the Brunswick County Board of Education voted 3-2 to uphold a decision by the county superintendent to keep Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color Purple,” as part of the school system’s high school curriculum.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice today asked a federal court to hear their legal challenge to North Carolina's sweeping voter suppression law in time for voters to participate in the crucial 2014 midterm elections.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A federal judge today ruled that a trial over North Carolina's sweeping voter suppression law will be held in 2015. U.S.
JACKSON COUNTY, NC – More than a year after the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) launched an investigation into complaints about vehicle checkpoints conducted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe today announced tha
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RALEIGH – The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it will file a lawsuit in federal court challenging key provisions of North Carolina’s new election law, widely considered to be the harshest voter suppression law in the nation.