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As the Wolfpack and Tar Heel women compete for Sweet 16 spots Monday, a reminder that the women’s game in North Carolina is a jewel.

Remember the Durham teen who had to cut her braids mid-baseball game? Today’s CROWN Act vote moved to bar such racially biased rules.

Long before Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett’s research helped develop America’s anti-COVID vaccines, she stood out from the crowd. 

The reauthorized Violence Against Women Act rectifies old loopholes that allowed non-Native offenders to escape punishment for assaults on tribal lands.

A program for lower-income households is helping pay outstanding water bills for struggling North Carolina residents. 

Equal Pay Day was started to raise awareness about the gender wage gap. But research shows race also plays an outsized role in earnings.

The state’s unemployment system , already has one of the most paltry in the nation, was unprepared to deal with the surge of need at the pandemic’s start.

Ella May Wiggins, a North Carolina textile worker, battled for all workers’ rights, establishing an early interracial labor union in the 1920s. 

Gas is becoming a luxury as prices spike to $4.18 a gallon in North Carolina,  while major oil companies and their investors’ profits go sky-high. 

This is serious. A UN report says rising seas will inundate a little less than half of the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula.