Articles

Obama Returns To Tar Heel State, The One That Got Away
The "Red State" swing state proved to be vexing for Obama and Democrats. Will it stay that way?
FDA Finds Fungus In Tennessee Pharmacy Drugs
Federal health officials say they have found bacteria and fungus in drug vials from a Tennessee specialty pharmacy that recalled all of its injectable medicines...

Can North Carolina Declare an “Official” Religion?
The separation of church and state took a real beating last week
Bracket Breakdown: 5 March Madness Storylines
The brackets are here! And so is the intrigue. A guide to the NCAA tournament

Deaf Man Stabbed After Sign Language Mistaken for Gang Signs
After using sign language to communicate with a friend, a deaf North Carolina man was stabbed several times last week. Why? A passerby apparently mistook his...
Photo Essays

LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960
Very few non-violent civil disobedience tactics of the late 1950s and early 1960s were as brilliantly simple in conception and as effective in execution as the...


