civil rights

May 25, 2012 - A recent U.S. appeals court upheld a key provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act against its latest challenge -- but it also opened the door for the Supreme Court to strike down the landmark civil rights legislation.

May 14, 2012 - Louisiana locks up its population at a rate triple that of Iran and seven times that of China. How did it become the world's incarceration capitol? Follow the money.

May 10, 2012 - An initiative of the Campaign for Southern Equality, the WE DO Campaign encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to take direct action to demand changes in discriminatory laws.

March 28, 2012 - The discussion about the Affordable Care Act has focused on whether the federal government can compel people to buy insurance, but the law's expansion of Medicaid to cover millions of low-income people is also being challenged. If this is upended, the courts could be flooded with challenges on everything from environmental protection to civil rights laws.

March 22, 2012 - A leading writer for the John Locke Foundation, a conservative NC think tank backed by Art Pope, resigns after posting an image of President Obama showing him in chains next to a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The group has issued an apology, but their statement raises as many questions as it answers.

March 8, 2012 - Nearly a year since Alabama passed the nation's toughest anti-immigrant law, community members say some immigrants are beginning to return.

February 24, 2012 - Facing federal scrutiny over a new voter ID law, South Carolina Republicans pushed lurid stories of dead voters taking over the polls. But even as the story fell apart, Fox News and GOP lawmakers dug in -- and still are, despite new evidence that zombie voter hysteria was a bad B-movie hoax.