On a sweltering morning in downtown Raleigh, Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington took these photos at the NAACP-led demonstration protesting the Wake County school board’s assignment policies.
Several hundred protesters gathered on the Fayetteville Street Mall
At the podium, Temple Beth Or Rabbi Lucy HF Dinner
North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber
Durham author and activist Tim Tyson
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church Pastor Nancy E. Petty
We’ll have more photos and a video report from related activities later today.