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NC HEALTH NEWS – Inside North Carolina prisons, incarcerated people have long turned to fellow prisoners for guidance about faith, conflict, grief, addiction and simply how to navigate life behind bars. An increasing number of those people are “field ministers” […]

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Elbert Frank Cox was born Dec. 5, 1895, in Evansville, Indiana, and attended segregated public schools that were chronically underfunded for Black students. When Cox was six, a mob of white residents stormed the […]

By WakeMed In May, WakeMed and Atrium Health announced plans to form a strategic combination that would unite WakeMed, the largest health system in Wake County, with Atrium Health, which includes more than 40 hospitals and cares for North Carolinians […]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Shaw University gave preseason CIAA contender Fayetteville State all it could handle Saturday night, building a double-digit first-half lead and pulling within one score late before falling 33-20 in the 2026 season opener at Luther “Nick” Jeralds […]

By Pippa Neill The Guardian Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to […]

NC NEWSLINE – Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition […]

COLUMBIA – Helping save Lakeview School in West Columbia is Earnestine Holden’s retirement job. Like many of the people trying to save historic Black schools, Holden, who graduated from the school in 1967, isn’t a professional historian or grant-writer. She’s […]

WILSON, N.C. – For a few months in 2025, Believer Meats appeared to have achieved what much of the cultivated-meat industry had been promising for years. The company had built a massive production facility in Wilson County. Federal regulators had […]

CARY, N.C. – The sound of pickleballs striking paddles is echoing across Cary this week as the town welcomes some of the sport’s biggest names for the inaugural Veolia Pickleball National Championships, bringing professional competition, amateur players and thousands of […]

By Livia Gershon JSTOR In the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States was transforming from an agrarian country to an industrial capitalist one. For some white economic thinkers, wage work represented a form of liberty: Workers were […]