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The North Carolina Legislature released its latest proposed budget Tuesday night that includes raises for teachers and state employees, a school safety fund, and money for capital and infrastructure projects.
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âOur Stateâ examines Wilmington 10 in March issue March's 'Our State' takes closer look at Wilmington 10 By Ashlea Kosikowski | March 5, 2021 at 5:37 PM EST - Updated March 5 at 5:38 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - In the March issue of Our State, the magazine takes a closer look at the history of the Wilmington 10. The Wilmington 10, made up of nine men and one woman, were wrongfully convicted in 1971 of arson and conspiracy during a civil rights protest. Most of the members of the group were sentenced to 29 years in prison. All served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal wo...
While just about 26% of the state's population at the time was nonwhite. >> in the 1950s and 1960s, north carolina was gaining this reputation for peaceful integration as a southern state, it begins to target african-american girls and women often who'd had children out of wedlock and were of modest means often on welfare. so it became a means of trimming the welfare rolls. >> the eugenics board was formally shut down in 1977, but it wasn't until 2002 that the state officially apologized for what it did. a decade later, democratic governor bev purdue pushed to compensate survivors. after bipar...
sent back. more importantly, they may not make it. >> it's a crisis that has inflamed the anti-immigration base of the republican party and has created the political conditions in which republicans can finally admit to doing what they have wanted to do all along, and that is is kill immigration reform. we will talk about that in just a moment. near the border, though, the first lady of honduras, anna garcia de hernandez is visiting immigration facilities and detention centers where thousands of hondurans are being held. she says her country is working to return hondurans to their cou...