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Earl Phillip said he would be engaging with African-American community, as well as the Latino-Hispanic, Asian-American other other groups that have self-identified themselves. He spoke to Breitbart News from an event in North Carolina.

Metal band Slipknot blasted North Carolina’s so-called transgender “bathroom bill” in a statement released Monday, one day before the band is scheduled to perform in Charlotte.

TAMPA, Florida — New polling from some of the most contentious battleground counties in 2016 finds overall support for presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump suggested presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was bribing Attorney General Loretta Lynch during his campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday night.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign rally at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, NC at 7:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

President Barack Obama joined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at their first joint campaign event of 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina — just hours after FBI director James Comey said he would not recommend prosecuting her for mishandling classified information.

North Carolina lawmakers are bending to media-magnified pressure from business groups, the sports industry and from advocates for transgender policies, say conservative supporters of the state’s popular ‘bathroom law’ which preserves sexual privacy in public bathrooms.

Country music legend Dolly Parton came out in support of those fighting to repeal North Carolina’s new transgender bathroom law in a video posted to social media.

A former Harnett County, North Carolina Republican chair said Rep. Renee Ellmers – who lost her primary race Tuesday – has become a “mean girl on steroids,” after the congresswoman remarked to her that she had gained weight.

The saga of soon-to-be former Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) undermining Republicans to help Democrats achieve their agenda has finally come to an end thanks to voters in North Carolina’s second congressional district.

The University of North Carolina is trying to evade a new state law which says people should use the single-sex bathroom that matches their original or changed birth certificate.

Pop star Selena Gomez will not cancel a scheduled performance in North Carolina on Tuesday over the state’s recent passage of a transgender bathroom law, choosing instead to donate a portion of the proceeds from the concert to fight what she calls an “act of discrimination.”

David Owens has been battling cancer for more than four years, and through the surgeries and numerous rounds of chemotherapy, he’s still managed to graduate from East Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a perfect 4.0 grade point average (GPA).

North Carolina Marine veteran Allen Thornwell, who fought to defend the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, says he was pink-slipped for lowering his employer’s American flag to half-staff on Memorial Day, The Charlotte Observer reports.

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s announcement that he is endorsing incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers in her North Carolina primary race Tuesday is a decision that at least one pro-life leader says is “just another disappointment from Mr. Trump and his campaign.”

Per a Fox 8 report, a North Carolina veteran claims he was fired from his job for lowering the American flag on Memorial Day. Twenty-nine-year-old former Marine Allen Thornwell reportedly had his contract with Time Warner Cable in Charlotte, NC terminated Tuesday. According

The full U.S. House of Representatives swats down a transgender measure, just hours after 43 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment that would have forced transgender rules on all 50 states, and disqualify faith-based groups including the Salvation Army from doing business with the federal government.

Far-left gay activists have launched a sneak ambush in North Carolina to help win a culture war over sex, transgender and “gender identity,” even before the nation’s surprised voters realize what is happening, according to the state’s governor, Pat McCrory.

Eleven states—led by Texas—filed a federal lawsuit today, arguing that the Obama administration’s redefining “sex” to include gender identity—and threatening to sue and strip funding from states and schools that refuse to go along—violates both federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Dave Matthews Band will donate the proceeds from their upcoming concert in Charlotte to five organizations fighting North Carolina’s recently enacted transgender bathroom law.

A new poll of registered voters in the swing state of Florida shows near-majority support for excluding men who claim to be women from women’s single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms.

A man who appeared in one of the more famous photos from the 1960s fight for equal rights for African Americans, says that it is “offensive” and “insulting” to equate today’s demand for transgender status with the drive to win blacks equal treatment under the law.

Maroon 5 cancelled a pair of upcoming concerts in North Carolina over the state’s recent passage of what critics call anti-transgender bathroom legislation.

In April 2014, Hollywood took a stand against Sharia law, initiating a boycott against the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel. That is all but abandoned in favor of the boycott of North Carolina over it’s transgender bathroom law.

Five-time Grammy Award-winning musician Sir Elton John blasted North Carolina’s recently enacted “transgender bathroom” law, writing in an op-ed Tuesday that the law is “dangerous” and “traumatic” for transgender individuals.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined parents on Monday to protest Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Dr. Kent Paredes Schribner’s student transgender policy. The policy allows students of the opposite sex to use facilities that they “gender identify” with at the moment.

Laura Jane Grace, transgender lead singer of punk rock bank Against Me!, set fire to her birth certificate during a concert Sunday at the Motorco Music Hall in Durham, North Carolina to protest the state’s recent passage of its so-called transgender “bathroom” law.

Obama’s crusade to push fluid “gender identity” in schools, has caused one Texas superintendent to respond, “I got news for President Barack Obama. He ain’t my president and he can’t tell me what to do. That letter is going straight

Former Arizona State Senator Dr. Kelli Ward called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch following news that the Department of Justice would sue North Carolina over the state’s new bathroom bill.

American pop music group Animal Collective is selling recordings of its live performances to raise money to support organized efforts against North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, commonly known as HB2.

Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, tells Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon: “We applaud what the governor did down there, when he pushed back against the crazy Obama Administration.”

Pop singer Nick Jonas is standing by his decision to cancel a pair of concerts in North Carolina over the state’s so-called LGBT “bathroom” law, telling Ellen DeGeneres on Monday that it was “the right thing to do.”

The White House denies playing a role in the Justice Department’s decision to threaten North Carolina over the “bathroom” law passed by the state government in March.

President Barack Obama’s deputies have told the North Carolina Governor that all single-sex public bathrooms — including those in K-12 schools — must be opened to people of both sexes by Monday to prevent “discrimination” against the roughly 1-in-2,400 American adults who say they’re transgender.

The Department of Justice says North Carolina’s new law that protects women and children from potential sexual predators in public rest rooms violates the civil rights of gay and transgender individuals, prompting a strong pushback from the Family Research Council.

Beyoncé Knowles has joined the ranks of a long list of progressive performers protesting North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.