Justice

May 8, 2014 - Real estate attorney Mark Chilton has been elected register of deeds in Orange County, NC following a campaign in which he pledged to defy state law by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

May 5, 2014 - A federal judge has struck down Wisconsin's voter identification law as discriminatory in a case that was designed to provide a model for challenges to voter suppression laws in other states including North Carolina and Texas.

May 1, 2014 - The South is disproportionately affected by the ongoing deportation crisis, and immigrant leaders and allies in the region are standing up to demand reform of immigration policies that are tearing apart families and communities. Will you join them?

April 29, 2014 - Today marks one year since 17 North Carolinians were arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience while protesting the state's hard-right political turn, sparking a movement that led to the arrests of almost 1,000 people and spread to other states. What's next?

April 28, 2014 - Prisoners' advocates call the reforms a step forward, but they don't address discrimination in presidential pardons or apply to everyone serving harsh sentences from outdated guidelines.

April 25, 2014 - Mabel Williams, who with her husband, Robert F. Williams, advocated armed self-defense against racist violence in Jim Crow North Carolina, has passed away. In exile in Cuba during the 1960s, she and her husband launched Radio Free Dixie and published the influential underground newsletter The Crusader.

April 17, 2014 - A new study sheds light on how the color of your skin influences the quality of the air you breathe. And while the South ranks relatively high for environmental inequality, it turns out that it's among the regions with the least disparity between whites and nonwhites when it comes to lung-damaging air pollution exposure.