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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 […]

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 […]

By Jheri Hardaway, Staff Writer Producers Wendell Tabb and Xavier Cason, in powerful association with the esteemed Triangle Performance Ensemble, recently captivated audiences with an outstanding and truly inspiring rendition of Black Nativity. This production was far more than a […]

AP NEWS – During the winter of 2024, Rachel Martin came to a startling realization: She spent most of her free time staring at screens. “I couldn’t really think of hobbies or things that I did that took a break […]

THE CONVERSATION – As child care costs outpace wages, more families are facing difficult decisions about whether to scale back work in order to care for loved ones. Caregiving remains the top reason women ages 25-54 leave the workforce. And […]

AP NEWS – With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the Senate on Wednesday, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is all but assured to become a federally recognized tribal nation. The state-recognized tribe, whose historic and […]

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The roots of HBCU football trace back to December 27, 1892, when Biddle College, now Johnson C. Smith University, defeated Livingstone College in what is recognized as the first intercollegiate football game between two […]