Diverse crowd marches in Raleigh to champion civil rights, healthcare and immigration at HKonJ People’s Assembly

Video: Thousands descend on downtown Raleigh for the annual HKonJ march on Saturday, February 11, 2017.
Casey Toth and Adam Jennings newsobserver.com
Coal ash wastewater spray: ‘I just don’t want to breathe it’

State Politics

Coal ash wastewater spray: ‘I just don’t want to breathe it’

Residents near the Brickhaven Mine in Chatham County are worried about the approval by the state Department of Environmental Quality to allow spraying of wastewater at the coal-ash dump. Without the kind of on-site disposal under discussion, that wastewater must be collected and taken to a disposal facility that treats industrial waste. Since 2015, the mine has produced 600,000 to 3 million gallons of wastewater per month, according to a report by mine owner Charah.

'We are done with your pettiness'

State Politics

'We are done with your pettiness'

James Wood, a 19-year-old Raleigh resident, shook his finger at legislators on Friday Aug. 4, 2017, during a joint committee of the N.C. state House and Senate select redistricting committee. He urged the lawmakers to draw fair maps to correct 28 districts found by the federal court to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

Greensboro resident on why she joined challenge of legislative districts

State Politics

Greensboro resident on why she joined challenge of legislative districts

Chanelle James, a Greensboro Democrat and UNC-Greensboro professor, talks about why she joined a lawsuit that challenged NC legislative districts drawn in 2011. The case was in front of a panel of federal judges in Greensboro on Thursday, July 27, 2017. The judges found 28 of 170 NC legislative districts to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.