by Press | Jul 3, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – The city of Graham’s orders preventing groups of two or more people from protesting without police permission violates the First Amendment to the Constitution on rights to free speech and assembly, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the...
by Press | Jun 26, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – North Carolina-based advocacy groups are concerned about possible Raleigh police violence against peaceful protesters at the Pride in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter rally this weekend, a letter sent to Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown on behalf...
by Press | May 14, 2020 | Press Releases
University Urged to Use Funds to Increase Diversity, Inclusion Chapel Hill, NC (May 14, 2020) – Today, following the Orange County Superior Court’s recent dismissal of North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. UNC and UNC Board of Governors, 19 CVS...
by Press | May 8, 2020 | Press Releases
North Carolina acknowledges it must do more to remedy the harm to communities living near industrial swine facilities, the environmental groups that filed a civil rights complaint against North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality said after reviewing the...
by Press | Apr 30, 2020 | Press Releases
Parents and Civil Rights Groups Say Proposed Town Charter School Legislation Will Return the State to the 1940s-Era Education System Raleigh, NC (April 30, 2020) – Legislation adopted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2018 (HB 514) violates the state’s...