Know Your Rights During A Traffic Stop
By Reginald L. Woods, IIStaff writer So you have been pulled over by the police for what they state to be a “routine traffic stop”… now what? Overview The current state of our nation has caused many black and brown […]
Read MoreRacial Reckoning Among US Muslims
As a young student, Hind Makki recalls, she would call out others at the Islamic school she attended when some casually used an Arabic word meaning “slaves” to refer to Black people. “Maybe 85% of the time, the response that […]
Read MoreTrump Signed A ‘Strong’ Order Protecting Monuments
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used Twitter on Friday to call for the arrest of protesters involved in this week’s attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson from a park directly in front of the White House. […]
Read MoreNASA Names HQ For ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
By Paris Dennard, RNC Senior Communications Advisor On Wednesday June 24, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started […]
Read MoreWilmington Police Officers Fired After Racist Rants
(AP) — Three members of a North Carolina police department have been fired after a department audit of a video recording captured one of the officers saying a civil war was necessary to wipe Black people off the map and […]
Read MoreA White Mother’s Tribute To Black Mother’s Sons
By Barbara S. McMahan Special To The Carolinian Like many of Raleigh’s black mothers whose sons are victims of our nation’s 50-year War on Drugs, in 2016 Rolanda Byrd, Executive Director of Raleigh PACT lost her son, Akiel to police […]
Read MoreBlack Cotton Co. Is More Than A Crop
It is said that if you do what you love, then you will never work a day in your life. If you are a farmer that statement needs to be amended because farming is work. But if you love it, […]
Read MoreMissteps Put Focus On Newsroom Diversity
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexis Johnson figures she wasn’t the loser when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said she couldn’t cover protests triggered by George Floyd’s death. Her readers were — denied the perspective of a black woman with family roots in […]
Read MoreTrump Announces $35 Copay For Medicaid Recipients
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Medicare recipients could pay less for insulin next year under a deal President Donald Trump announced Tuesday in a pivot to pocketbook issues important in November’s election. “I hope the seniors are going to remember it,” […]
Read MoreCould Beasley Replace Ginsberg?
Chanté Russell Staff Writer Since Former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge that he would name a woman vice president if elected, his potential picks have been a major topic of discussion. However, he also made another important pledge to nominate […]
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