Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you buy the latest fashions at Burdines? The hot new record album at Spec’s? Some notions at Woolworth? A toaster at Zayre? A ...

In February, The News & Observer published a story that sounded alarms within North Carolina progressive circles: “Transgender woman has asked to be moved from a men’s prison. So far, NC has said no.” ...

Every day, when Kanautica Zayre-Brown walks the halls of Anson Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina, she’s misgendered by her fellow inmates and correctional officers and called by her ...

Kanautica Zayre-Brown is a woman. Kanautica Zayre-Brown was convicted of a crime. Kanautica Zayre-Brown ought to be in a women’s prison. But since 2017, she has served the beginning of a 9-year, ...

I remember when Zayre first opened in Pittsfield back in 1959. I had never been in such a big store with so much merchandise on display on one floor. It was probably Pittsfield's first real "big box" ...

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has continually denied Kanautica Zayre-Brown, an incarcerated transgender woman in their custody, access to gender-affirming surgery. The American Civil ...

Did you buy the latest fashions at Burdines? The hot new record album at Spec’s? Some notions at Woolworth? A toaster at Zayre? A calculator at Circuit City? So many long-lost stores in South Florida.