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Hundreds of local and regional labor organization members and supporters marched in the Charlotte Labor Day Parade on Monday, one day before the start of the Democratic National Convention. Also on Monday, Charlotte hosted CarolinaFest. The event, held on Tryon…

Four years ago on his way to the White House, candidate Barack Obama carried three southern states: Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. Maybe America's political map is changing, the experts speculated. Maybe Democrats do have a shot in the South…

Protestors provoked by a raft of issues marched through Charlotte, N.C., under the watchful eye of hundreds of police officers. The marchers chanted, sang and carried signs deploring the bailout of failing banks, immigration policies of the United States, bankers'…