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By Dr. Nora Volkow NIH Saturday, August 31, was International Overdose Awareness Day, when we collectively remember those who have lost their lives to drug overdose, support those who grieve those losses, and offer encouragement to those who seek recovery […]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Boxed lunches eased appetites during North Carolina Black Alliance’s (NCBA) midyear retreat at a Southeast Raleigh church in August. There Marcus Bass was after lunch breaking down the boxes for easier disposal, going about the task with […]

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer In the world of North Carolina politics, Senator Natalie Murdock is proving that authenticity is the ultimate political currency.  As the first Black woman under 40 to serve in our state Senate, Murdock isn’t just […]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Frank S. Greene Jr. stands as one of Silicon Valley’s quiet architects, an engineer whose work on early semiconductor memory chips helped accelerate modern computing. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in St. Louis during […]

JABO, Nigeria (AP) – Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house […]

By: Jordan Meadows, Staff Writer Annie Wealthy Holland’s life story is inseparable from the story of Black education in the early twentieth-century South. Born in 1871 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Holland entered the world on land adjacent to […]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Try as some might to confine Black history to a month, there’s just too much to limit it to 28 days a year. Faith Howell-Bey discovered similarly with Women’s History Month. “When I first created Queens Table […]

WUNC – When the Trump administration terminated the nearly $2 billion EPA Community Change Grant Program earlier this year, organizations across the nation lost millions of dollars in environmental justice grants. In North Carolina, the birthplace of the environmental justice […]

Carolina Public Press – SPEED – Despite its name, life moves slowly in the Town of Speed. So does its municipal government, which has been pressured by the state’s Local Government Commission to dissolve voluntarily after falling way behind on […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The start of a new year usually brings new motivation to achieve goals like eating healthier or finally cleaning your basement. Many resolutions also focus on financial goals, such as paying off credit card debt, saving […]