Author: The Carolinian

By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC-12) is a primary co-signer of a Sept. 8th letter by Massachusetts Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and approximately 60 other members of Congress, to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, requesting an investigation into a troubling "series of deaths" by hanging of Black people across the country in recent weeks. The deaths " raise significant suspicion

[caption id="attachment_19993" align="alignnone" width="2560"] KODAK Digital Still Camera[/caption] Spelman College-MaKyra Wilson, C'2027, recently became the first person to engineer variants of AmiB2, a newly characterized gene involved in bacterial metabolism and cell-wall maintenance, and introduce them into a safer model bacterium used to study Tuberculosis. As a result, the DNA tools used in the discovery will be subsequently named after her and used to support future research. Tuberculosis remains one

WUNC - This fall, colleges of education across North Carolina are welcoming back students who had previously left their programs solely because they struggled to pass a standardized entrance exam. At UNC-Greensboro's School of Education, about 35 students returned. "We saw a large number of music ed students, dance ed students, birth through kindergarten students, and elementary (education) students who returned to the major," said Jacqueline Dozier, Director for Student

NC NEWSLINE - For years, Gerald Carr knew where to turn when his Charlotte construction company needed help navigating North Carolina's state contracting system. Now, Carr said, the rules have changed and businesses like his are scrambling to figure out what comes next. Carr, CEO of All-Pro Builders and Restorations, was among the dozens of Black and minority business owners and advocates who gathered in Greensboro Thursday to press state

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Sixty-three years ago, dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klan members exploded through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls as they prepared for Sunday services. Hundreds of people filled the church on Tuesday on the 63rd anniversary of the bombing. The church marked the anniversary with the opening of a new visitors center that leaders said is aimed at educating people about

NEW YORK (AP) - Closing out a turbulent summer for the news industry, the McClatchy newspaper chain has made deep cuts at The Miami Herald and other papers it owns across the nation. The union that represents McClatchy journalists said Friday that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid off, accounting for about 30 percent of all McClatchy workers unionized with The NewsGuild-CWA.

NEW YORK-Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe gave American tennis a night to remember at the U.S. Open, meeting in a historic all-American semifinal that showcased two friends, two generations of African American tennis and a rivalry that has helped define the sport's next chapter. Shelton emerged from the Arthur Ashe Stadium showdown with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 victory Friday, earning his first Grand Slam final appearance. The match was

NC NEWSLINE - One month before early in-person voting begins in North Carolina, civil rights leader and Repairers of the Breach President Bishop William Barber said voters should not fall victim to the confusion surrounding voting in the midterms. The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to approve the president's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections, directing the postal service to refuse to deliver mail

[caption id="attachment_19935" align="alignnone" width="780"] Striking aerial drone photo of a massive data center's cooling infrastructure. Highlights the immense scale, water usage, and energy consumption required for hyperscale computing.[/caption] LOS ANGELES (AP) - New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity's survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Charlotte became a meeting place for African, American and diaspora business leaders last week as the Global Africa Summit brought together investors, entrepreneurs, government officials and economic development leaders focused on expanding trade and investment between Africa and the global diaspora. The three-day summit, held Sept. 8-10 at The Westin Charlotte, was organized by the Africa Investment Network in partnership with Black Wall Street Charlotte, the Global Africa