Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Generations of North Crolina’s leading jurists believed that Chief Justice Thomas ...

RALEIGH, N.C.RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will remove a portrait of a former chief justice from its courtroom who staunchly defended slavery and owned ...

A neighborhood street got a new name Monday night that reflects a former North Carolina chief justice and slaveowner’s history, but from a different perspective. The Hillsborough Town Board voted ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A statue commemorating a controversial North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice was removed Monday from the state's Court of Appeals. Thomas Ruffin served two different stints as ...

Cheri Beasley called the decision to remove Thomas Ruffin from the high court’s wall ‘a tremendous reflection’ of progress made. The North Carolina Supreme Court has announced plans to remove the ...

Hillsborough residents will talk in March about renaming a neighborhood street that honors a North Carolina chief justice and slave owner. Thomas Ruffin’s portraits were removed last year from the ...

Thomas Ruffin, a 19th century North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, has long stood as a controversial emblem of the state’s judicial history. His legacy, which includes pro-slavery rulings and ...

Thomas A. Ruffin CHESAPEAKE – Elder Thomas A. “Chug” Ruffin, 89, of the 300 block of Dominion Blvd. He passed away May 20, 2011 in Chesapeake Health Care. He was born in Oak Grove, Va., to John Thomas ...

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is removing the names of men from campus buildings who have ties to white supremacy and racism.The Raleigh News & Observer reported Wednesday that the ...

Ruffin , Thomas III, of Coconut Creek, FL, passed away on June 21, 2007. Tom’s extraordinary passion, talent and caring ways will forever be remembered by those he loved and by those who loved him.