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.