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“People are craving to get out,” said Mike Marr of Vernon Hills, brewmaster of Buffalo Creek Brewing.

The N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission’s process for conducting its hearings needs updating in the wake of the denial Thursday of innocence claims from four men in a high-profile Forsyth County

Feliccia Smith wants others to listen, to learn, to educate – and then to memorialize the four Black men from Greenville County who were lynched.

Liberal activist the Rev. William Barber is loudly calling for a special prosecutor to take over the case of Andrew Brown, who was shot after Pasquotank County deputies tried to serve him with search and arrest warrants. “Inept. Incompetent. Incapable of fixing this,” Barber in a community protest, according to the News & Observer. “We need independent prosecutors now. Release the tape, the whole tape, to everybody.” Barber attacked the locally elected district attorney, Andrew Womble, who is leading the investigation. “Who is the D.A. who went into court and acted like he was the p...

4 Black lives ended in lynchings. Here are their stories in Greenville County's history. Angelia L. Davis, Greenville News Nation's first lynching memorial confronts legacy of racial terror Replay Video UP NEXT The history of lynching victims in Greenville's past was brought to light each Monday in February, in observance of Black History Month. These stories were aided from the research and documentation of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County (CRP). The CRP, in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), is working to "memorialize documented victi...