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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] (R-L)Delaware's Lisa Blunt Rochester and Maryland's Angela Alsobrooks[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago. Delaware's Lisa Blunt Rochester marks the milestone by saying that the reason she does this work is not about

By: Greg Childress NC Newsline Shakamie appeared comfortable holding court last week to discuss homelessness with a reporter and several of his friends in the Circle K parking lot off of Highway 70 near the Interstate 40, south of downtown Raleigh. He and others in an impromptu circle were part of an encampment for people experiencing homelessness on the expansive, wooded lot behind the busy convenience store. The Raleigh Police

  By Bryan Washington The Paris Review There's a look you get used to receiving, and quickly, if you're black with tattoos. First, there's the flicker of recognition. A scan from your audience, digesting your appearance. A brief smile or flinch, as the appraiser does some mental calculus. Then there are a few beats as they read more cues: your speech, and your demeanor, and your gait, and your dress.

By: Cynthia McCormick Hibbert Northeastern University Federal agencies have announced one food recall after another in recent weeks, with the most serious involving an 18-state outbreak of listeria from deli meat that has killed nine people as of Aug. 29. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the bacterial infections linked to Boar's Head meat sliced at the deli is the largest outbreak of listeria since a 2011 outbreak

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market, costing consumers and businesses billions of dollars. The complaint filed Tuesday says San Francisco-based Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don't use Visa's own payment processing technology to process debit transactions, even though alternatives exist. Visa

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday overturned a former county sheriff's fraud and obstruction convictions, declaring allegations related to falsifying his firearms training requirements didn't meet the necessary elements for those crimes. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals vacated the convictions against Brindell Wilkins on six counts of obstruction of justice and also reversed a trial judge's decision refusing to dismiss six counts

RALEIGH - The N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund recently awarded $18.2 million to protect working farms and forests, support county farmland preservation efforts and promote agricultural enterprises. Over $8.8 million was awarded for 20 agricultural conservation easements on 1,392 acres of farm and forestland across the state. Five counties were awarded grants under the new Agricultural Growth Zones program, an initiative to combine state and local funding

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said Tuesday his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website's message board. The lawyers will look at how what Robinson calls "false smears" originated. The announcement comes as more North Carolina Republicans disturbed by last week's report said that if Robinson can't

By Daniel Mollenkamp EdSurge Sometimes, it takes an unlikely friendship to change the world. For American education, one of those alliances started in the early 20th century. That's when a ludicrously successful retailer-turned-philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald, met the prominent educator Booker T. Washington. The pair decided to work together, hoping to improve education for Black students in the segregated South. Their collaboration created nearly 5,000 "Rosenwald Schools" - across 15 Southern

[caption id="attachment_8989" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Joseph Amrine, who was exonerated two decades ago after spending years on death row, speaks at a rally to support Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Aug. 21, 2024, in Clayton, MO (AP Photo/Jim Salter)[/caption] BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim's family and