Police respond to Clark Street robbery

DURHAM -- The Project Safe Neighborhoods Unit of the Durham Police Department will conduct a Community Response at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the 300 block of Clark Street to offer support to a robbery victim and the neighborhood, and to develop investigative leads in the case.

Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator James Carnevale at 560-4582, ext. 29239 or CrimeStoppers at 683-1200.

CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.

NAACP's Barber wins award for rights efforts

GREENSBORO -- State NAACP President, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II received the Human Rights Medal Award presented in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-in and the grand opening of the International Civil Rights Museum on Monday.

The opening of the museum coincided with the annual tribute to four North Carolina A&T freshmen, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. (Jibreel Khazan) and the late David Richmond.

Their non-violent sit-in to desegregate Woolworth's sparked direct action by students across the south.