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By: Sam D. Hayes, Trinity College  Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 election. One ruling boosted Black voting power in Louisiana, while another decision upheld a South […]

Last Tuesday, July 16, the North Carolina State Board of Elections, in a decision that undermines the democratic process, has rejected the petition submitted by the Justice for All party for inclusion on the ballot. The West/Abdullah presidential campaign, while […]

  RALEIGH – Governor Roy Cooper named Julia White as Chief of Staff to succeed outgoing Chief of Staff Kristi Jones who will depart the Governor’s Office in mid-August after serving in the role since Governor Cooper took office in […]

RALEIGH, NC, July 10, 2024 – Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) announces the launch of LANC-LIA (Legal Information Assistant), pronounced “Leah,” an AI-powered virtual assistant on its website, legalaidnc.org. Developed in LANC’s Innovation Lab in collaboration with LawDroid, LANC-LIA […]

RALEIGH – Three towns in two counties of the Research Triangle Region will be able to begin work on a joint effort to increase water supply to one of the fastest-growing areas of the state now that the Local Government […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home, with one fatal blow to the head, as seen in body camera video released […]

By: Cash Michaels Embattled St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh will have its doors open for the coming fall semester, thanks to a reversal by the arbitration committee of The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to […]

NEW YORK (AP) – When Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, exits the building on Jan. 1, 2026, he won’t be looking back on the institution he’s led since 2013 and which has shaped his life for longer than […]

RALEIGH -The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand school-based health care in North Carolina. The grant will support NCDHHS’ ongoing work […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation. The United States had endured a life-altering pandemic. There was a […]