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More than half a million North Carolinians now qualify for Medicaid 

Medicaid expansion takes effect Dec. 1 in North Carolina, and 5 On Your Side is helping answer your questions about the change. 

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Medicaid expansion in North Carolina will begin Dec. 1, 2023

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Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 -- For the Rocky Mount High School class of 1970 - celebrating its COVID-delayed 50th reunion - there is truly dynamic history to recall. The class of '70 was the first to graduate from a fully integrated Rocky Mount High School.

SETH EFFRON: Rocky Mount High School class of '70 - Making history by just showing up wasn't easy

Rocky Mount Senior High School

A group of high school graduates from Warren County are set to celebrate their 50th class reunion this weekend, and while the world has changed a lot in those five decades, one of the biggest changes for them came while they were still in school.

High school graduates celebrating 50th reunion recall going through integration of public schools

Classmates reflect on integrating their high school 50 years ago

Gail Johnson Rountree tells her story about being the first black student to enter an all-white elementary school in Edenton and how it impacted the rest of her life.

CLEVELAND INDIANS HAVE ANNOUNCED NAME CHANGES DUE TO RECENT CRITICISMS. OUR TAR HEEL TRAVELER IS PROFILING AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE. >> A WOMAN AS A CHILD WAS THE FIRST TO INTEGRATE HER SCHOOL. >> DID YOU REALIZE HOW BIG A DEAL THIS WAS? >> NO, I DID NOT. IT WAS KIND OF LIKE A SHOCK WHEN I GOT THERE. >> Reporter: WHEN SHE WALKED INTO SCHOOL THAT FIRST DAY, E.A. SWAIN ELEMENTARY, 1964, AN ALL WHITE SCHOOL. GAYLE, A 6th GRADER, WAS THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT TO ATTEND. >> OH I WAS FEARFUL BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. WHEN I WENT TO THE DINING ROOM FOR LUNCH, WHEN I WENT TO SIT AT THE TABLE AND THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE SITTING THERE, THEY ALL GOT UP AND LEFT. >> SO YOU ATE BY YOURSELF? >> I DID. I DIDN'T GO THERE TO MAKE FRIENDS. I WENT THERE TO EAT. >> WERE YOU CALLED NAMES? >> OH YEAH, THE N WORD QUITE FREQUENTLY. IF I WOULD WALK BY SOMETIMES THEY WOULD PUT THEIR FOOT OUT AND TRY TO TRIP ME DOWN. >> HALLOWEEN CAME. >> I HAD SOME OF MY FRIENDS. I SAID OH I KNOW WHERE MY TEACHER LIVES. LET'S GO TO HER HOUSE. SHE CAME AND WE SAID TRICK OR TREAT. SHE YELLED GET OUT OF HERE. GO TO PEOPLE YOUR COLOR! SHE SLAMMED THE DOOR IN OUR FACE. I CRIED SOME, YOU KNOW, BUT NOBODY SAW ME. WHEN I CRIED, I CRIED BY MYSELF. I DIDN'T EVEN LET MY MOM KNOW. I WANTED TO GO. I WANTED TO FINISH. >> Reporter: SHE DID FINISH. SHE WENT ONTO GRADUATE NEAR THE TOP OF HER CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND AT THE TOP IN NURSING SCHOOL. FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, GAYLE HAS WORKED AS A NURSE. ARE YOU GLAD FOR THE EXPERIENCE IN 6th GRADE? >> YES, I AM. >> YOU ARE? >> I AM. I FEEL LIKE IT'S MADE ME A BETTER PERSON. BE KIND TO EVERYONE. >> DESPITE THE PREJUDICE SHE ENDURED AS A GIRL, SHE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS AN A STUDENT,

Meet the woman whose action allowed for integration at Edenton schools 

Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 -- Achieving equitable access to high quality education for all requires that every child has what they need to be successful, that oppressive systems are dismantled and structural inequities are redressed. We can begin this process by working toward the goal of ensuring that all children have equitable access to a sound basic education, as defined in the Leandro case and as guaranteed by our state constitution.  

MARY ANN WOLF: The intersection of equity and education

02-06-2021 ED MATTERS

If you've ever played in the game room or walked the track at the popular Hunt Recreation Center in Holly Springs, you may not realize it, but you've stood on an important piece of Black history.

Abandoned school: Local park built inside decades-old shell of segregated school

Holly Springs School / Rosenwald School

Alabama Governor George Wallace finally ended his blockade of two black students into the university, located in Tuscaloosa, on this date in 1963.

This Day in History: University of Alabama is desegregated (June 11, 1963)

Alabama desegregation on this date

A California school district outside San Francisco agreed to desegregate its schools Friday, after a two-year state investigation found that the district had "knowingly and intentionally maintained and exacerbated" racial segregation and even established an intentionally segregated school.

California school district agrees to desegregate after inquiry into separate programs

California School District Agrees to Desegregate After Inquiry Into Separate Programs

Forty-eight years after the death of Louis Austin, the small town of Enfield in Halifax County is unveiling a memorial to honor the life of a civil rights advocate. 



Memorial unveiled to honor late civil rights advocate

Forty-eight years after the death of Louis Austin, the small town of Enfield in Halifax County is unveiling a memorial to honor the life of a civil rights advocate. 


On April 4,1968, Dr. King was shot and killed as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. The "apostle of nonviolence" had gone to Memphis in support of a sanitation workers' strike. 

This day in history: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

Quote of the day: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The weather should be beautiful for this jam-packed spring weekend!

Weekend best bets: Beer and Bacon, Dreamville and food trucks

J. Cole breaks first-day streaming record with new album

In the 1970s, in the midst of racial division, a Durham civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader came together to change history.

Desegregation Coverage

SETH EFFRON: Rocky Mount High School class of '70 - Making history by just showing up wasn't easy

High school graduates celebrating 50th reunion recall going through integration of public schools

Meet the woman whose action allowed for integration at Edenton schools

MARY ANN WOLF: The intersection of equity and education

Abandoned school: Local park built inside decades-old shell of segregated school

This Day in History: University of Alabama is desegregated (June 11, 1963)

California school district agrees to desegregate after inquiry into separate programs

Memorial unveiled to honor late civil rights advocate

Memorial unveiled to honor late civil rights advocate

This day in history: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

Weekend best bets: Beer and Bacon, Dreamville and food trucks

Desegregation film with Durham roots premieres soon

The Best of Enemies: New film tells story of desegregation in Durham