Back in January 2012, when National NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said that the nation was watching North Carolina, he could not have been more accurate.

Since the beginning of the year, the national spotlight has shone brightly on recent...

During our Race to the Ballot, a 322-mile run across North Carolina, wrapped in what amounts to 2,500 miles of voter registration and education events, we've visited every college campus that would have us, to get students mobilized against Amendment One, the state's upcoming primary ballot measure that would threaten...

Our statewide Race to the Ballot voter registration and education tour launched last week in western North Carolina -- a region not known as a bastion for racial diversity -- with one supporter pledge at the conclusion of every stop: to rejoin the Race for the North Carolina...

Sadly, the most frequent question I get when people find out that I, a non-runner, am running 322 miles across North Carolina to seed 1 million conversations about the harms of Amendment One on our May primary ballot is, "How's the training going?"

I say "sadly" because I'd...

With five simple words, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James revealed the true purpose for a constitutional amendment filed in North Carolina's legislature in 2011 that would ban all relationship recognitions for same-gender couples.

"We don't want them here."

The "them" the amendment proponent referred to in the