The Eastern Band of the Cherokee celebrate the solar eclipse with their traditional ceremony of the legend of the ‘great frog’ and the sun. The eclipse was in totality in Cherokee, N. C..
Eclipse viewers gather outside UNC’s Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, N. C. to watch as the moon moved in front of the sun Monday afternoon.
Joshua Madarasz, a sixth-grader at Salem Middle School, gives a visual description of an early view of the eclipse from the western Triangle.
Otis Hardy spent 21 years in prison. The faith he found in prison changed his life.
Storyteller Mike Crowe of the Eastern Band of Cherokees explains the legend of the ‘great frog’ and the sun as the tribe readies for the solar eclipse in Cherokee, NC.
Can you answer these questions that school-aged children had to answer about the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21?
NC NAACP president William Barber says more work needs to be done beyond removing Confederate statues and condemning actions of white nationalists.
Protesters march near the new courthouse in Durham, NC after word circulated that a KKK rally would happen at noon downtown.
Several hundred protesters march in downtown Durham, N. C. Friday afternoon, Aug. 18,2017 after word circulated of a possible KKK rally at noon. The KKK rally did not happen.
Durham police officers begin clearing the street of counter-protesters Friday afternoon after several hours of protests against white supremacy.
Trump-supporter Rosalia Lugo speaks out against counter-protesters in downtown Durham after hundreds came out believing white supremacists were going to rally. Her son who is 9 is at left. She did not want to provide his name.
Video: Vandals struck the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee outside Duke Chapel on Duke University’s campus sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday Aug. 17,2016.
About 100 activists walked down to the jail to support 3 people turning themselves in Thursday morning in connection with the toppling of the Confederate statue on Monday. Initially, the supportive crowd planned to “symbolically” turn themselves in, but officials at the jail blocked their entry into the buildings.
Dante Emmanuel Strobino, 35, Ngoc Loan Tran, 24, and Peter Hull Gilbert, 39, all of Durham, were arrested on Wednesday for their alleged participation in the removal of a Confederate statue on Monday. They appeared in court for the first time on Thursday.
Activists gather outside the Durham County courthouse to protest the arrests of four people who brought down and mangled a Confederate soldier statue earlier this week.
