North Carolina

“Anything that gives those people pride needs to be crushed in the same way that they want to crush Black people and the other groups that they target.”

Rashid Johnson: “My feeling when I learned that this house existed was just an incredible urgency to make sure it didn’t go away.”

“I was arrested this week because it’s wrong for the richest nation in the history of the world to pay half its African-American workers and 60 percent of its Latino workers less than $15 an hour.”

Four Communist Workers’ Party members and another person were killed during a confrontation between anti-racist protesters and White supremacists. Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members, who were prosecuted for murder in state and federal trials, were acquitted by all-White juries. 

Trump: “It is my highest and greatest hope that the Republican Party can be the home of the African-American vote once again.”

North Carolinians may have to deal with contaminated groundwater after inundated hog farms release animal waste, as Haitians farmers struggle to rebuild.

“Voter impersonation is rarer than being struck by lightning.”

Charlotte Uprising organizer Marcus Bass: “While the right to own a gun is valued as a cornerstone of American citizenship, the right of Black people to live through a police encounter is not equally valued.”

A state of emergency has been declared in the North Carolina city as protesters agitate for justice.