On July 16, 2013, the Republican party of North Carolina and the Moccasin Creek Minutemen hosted a rally to respond to the ongoing Moral Monday protests, and, to thank Republican lawmakers for many of the same policies that Moral Monday participants gather to criticize. North Carolina residents

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Note: There are two videos about what happened Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at the NC General Assembly when the Senate voted on HB 695 “Faith, Family and Freedom Protection Act”: One documenting what happened inside the Senate chamber and one documenting what happened outside the Senate

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The Republican leaders in North Carolina are currently engaged in a power struggle over taxes and budget with one conservative leader resigning from a powerful leadership position while calling out corruption.  In North Carolina, the first time since the Reconstruction era,

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The Raleigh State Capitol police expelled the media from the capitol dome on Wed. June 26, prior to arresting 3 men who refused to leave, and after Gov. Pat McCrory chose not to meet with a group of 50 North Carolina residents asking him to veto a slate of bills they see as

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Eric Byler and I have been traveling around America with the goal of trying to understand why Washington is so gridlocked and the people apparently divided 50 years after the March on Washington. In Alabama, we encountered some dramatic expressions of that division. We also

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Tim Funk is the Faith and Values Reporter for The Charlotte Observer. He was assigned to cover “Moral Monday” on June 10, when members of the clergy led hundreds of people into the North Carolina General Assembly to protest voting restrictions and other policies

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I caught up with Nancy Brown at 3 am at the Wake County Detention Center. She had been released hours earlier, but the person with whom she was riding home had not yet been released. She recounted her experience of being arrested by Capitol Police as part of the “Moral Mondays”

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If the North Carolina General Assembly is concerned about its place in history, it looks like they’ve got something to worry about. Several of the world’s top historians, three of whom appear in the video below, have been arrested in recent days protesting what Rev. Dr. William

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Molly McDonough turned 18 a few days after the 2012 election. She was arrested during a demonstration at the North Carolina state capitol to ensure that her right to vote is protected. Among a slew of new laws intended to restrict voting rights in North Carolina is an astonishingly cynical law

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News from North Carolina is that a new Voter ID bill will be introduced this week. Many conservatives we have talked to in North Carolina are concerned that demographic shift will make it more difficult for Republicans to win elections, especially at the statewide level.

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