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Salisbury, NC - F&M Bank is proud to support Montague Plaza, featuring 14 Black-owned businesses, with $4 million in financing. Opening in 2024 off Rock Quarry Road in southeast Raleigh, the 16,000-square-foot Montague Plaza will feature Black-owned businesses ranging from retail to professional services to educational programs for residents as well as students at adjacent Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. The programs will include focus on math, science, financial literacy

RALEIGH - Today, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of four people in North Carolina and granted pardons to four others. The commutations and pardons follow an intensive review of cases, including the circumstances of the crimes, length of the sentences, records in prison, and readiness to reenter communities successfully after prison. Pardons are awarded to those persons who have made exceptional strides since completing their sentence, including examining any

By Ben Harris & Martin Neil Baily  The Brookings Institute Conventional wisdom on retirement is misguided. The approaching exhaustion of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds has stoked anxiety over the disappearance of these programs' support, while dire statistics about Americans' lack of retirement assets have propelled a belief of chronic under-saving. In the aggregate, neither view is quite right-and this mischaracterization has unearthed calls by some to dismantle

By Ms Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer Recently, a report was referenced on the blog of MSNBC host and author Joy Reid discussing 'The Black Online Disinformation Landscape' by Onyx Impact. Upon researching the organization, there were few details accessible. Esosa Osa, a 2012 Duke University graduate, identifies as the Founder and CEO of Onyx Impact via LinkedIn. The report by Onyx Impact asserted on page two, "Onyx Impact rejects any

WASHINGTON (AP) - Within minutes of the gunfire, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims - some outlandish, others contradictory - reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America's fevered, polarized political climate. The cloudburst of speculation and conjecture as Americans turned to the internet for news about the shooting is the latest sign of how social media has emerged as a

USA - Lewis Hamilton had been counting the days since his last Formula 1 win and the number was creeping toward 1,000. After a brilliant victory in front of his home fans at the British Grand Prix on Sunday - his 104th win in F1 - a relieved Hamilton can finally stop counting. "That's the longest stint without a win, 945 days. This could be one of the most special

The Daily Yonder Amy Drum has a new grandbaby she's eager to get home to see. Drum, who lives in the town of Lincolnton, in North Carolina's Piedmont region, had been free of heroin and methamphetamine for a good while before relapsing. It was pretty rough going for a time. She eventually got into treatment. Since April, she's found sustenance and support in this temporary home she shares with two

  By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law four bills on Wednesday. One of the bills focuses on creating a registry managed by the North Carolina Department of Revenue specifically for certified vapor products, such as e-cigarettes and nicotine-containing consumables. Starting at the end of 2024, manufacturers will be required to obtain certification to sell these products in the state. Another bill signed by Cooper

By Kevin A. Young - UMass Signed into law 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on "race, color, sex, religion, or national origin." Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I think the law's most important lesson for today's movements is not its content but rather how it was achieved. [caption id="attachment_7881" align="alignleft" width="266"] Holding protest sign

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sided with 15 states that had argued the language the rule was based on - the 1972 Title IX nondiscrimination law - encompasses biological