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The growing aftermath of the White House controversy following violence and bigotry in Charlottesville, VA last weekend has reached the HBCU community, as leaders from advocacy groups and Capitol Hill are calling for the Trump Administration to cancel the annual White House Initiative on HBCUs conference.

U.S. Rep. Alma Adams has urged President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to postpone the 2017 National HBCU Week Conference in September because, she said, Trump hasn't fulfilled the promises he made when he signed an executive order in February.

Under the order, the federal government would provide greater investments and additional resources to the country's historically black universities and colleges.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., reacted Thursday to President Trump's tweets that the removal of Confederate statues around the country is foolish and would damage the nation's history and culture.

Burr and U.S. Rep. David Price, D-4th, were the only members of the state's delegation to Congress who talked about Trump's most recent statements about Confederate monuments.

The searing images of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists battling on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, with counter-protesters on Saturday, culminating in the tragic murder of a young white woman when a car driven by an alleged Nazi sympathizer slammed into an unsuspecting crowd, are still in the minds and hearts of most African-Americans almost a week later.

At Moore Place north of uptown Tuesday, local leaders gathered to talk about possible solutions to what's become a major theme in Charlotte politics: Affordable housing and the lack thereof, as the city's boom continues.

Unconvinced federal authorities will call out white nationalism, Charlotte's social and political leaders are taking up the cause.

At a Monday press conference at Little Rock AME Zion Church, civil rights, community and clerical activists took turns condemning violence in Charlottesville, Virginia that resulted in the deaths of three people. Neo-Nazi, "alt-right" and white nationalist groups clashed with counter-protesters during a "Unite the Right" parade in Charlottesville's downtown.

WASHINGTON — With great fanfare, President Donald Trump vowed to outdo former President Barack Obama in supporting the nation's historically black colleges when he signed an executive order in February to place oversight of the schools directly in the White House.

Six months later, the school's leaders are still waiting for results.

Black college and university leaders are raising serious questions about how Trump, who won 8 percent of the African-American vote last year, is dealing with their communities' concerns.

Jean Busby had no idea dehydration could be so expensive.

After feeling dizzy and thirsty during a rally at the state capitol, the Charlotte resident was rushed to a Raleigh hospital, where she learned the hard truth about health insurance.