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By Taylor Sisk The Daily Yonder When Janice Probst read a report released in March by the federal Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service confirming that the health disparities gap between rural and urban Americans is widening, substantially, she was dismayed but not surprised. According to the report, between 1999 and 2019 the gap in rural/urban natural-cause deaths for those aged 25-54 surged from 6 percent to 43 percent. Researchers

NCSBE-Presidential election years, like 2024, are busy times for voter registrations in North Carolina. Many voter registration drives are being conducted across the state this year. The State Board of Elections offers the following eight tips and reminders to voters and prospective voters during this time: Check your registration. The State Board encourages all voters to check their voter registration using the Voter Search tool. This will ensure that voters

NEW YORK (AP) - Toy maker MGA Entertainment must pay $71.5 million in damages for infringing on the name and likeliness of teen pop group OMG Girlz with one of its popular lines of dolls, a federal jury has decided. Monday's verdict hands a win to OMG Girlz - as well as Xscape singer Tameka "Tiny" Harris and rapper Chris "T.I." Harris - in the third court trial related to

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA  Black Democratic operatives and minority-owned firms are raising alarms over spending practices in Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. They accuse the campaign of favoring white-owned vendors while sidelining Black-owned firms. The controversy, first reported by NOTUS, a nonprofit newsroom created by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, has caused growing frustration among Democratic leaders, operatives, and donors. Many fear that these missteps could harm Harris' standing

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed to stay in office Thursday after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and businesspeople buy his influence with illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips. Adams, a Democrat, faces conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery charges in a five-count indictment outlining a decade-long trail of corruption that began when he served as an elected official in Brooklyn

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kameale Terry saw it coming before almost anyone else did. She realized the expanding network of electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. would need a workforce to maintain it. The realization came as she found herself back in South Central Los Angeles - where she grew up - taking care of her mom, who was on her third recurrence of cancer. It was 2016 and

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina trial judge refused on Thursday a Republican Party request that he block students and employees at the state's flagship public university from being able to show a digital identification to comply with a largely new photo ID law. Wake County Superior Court Judge Keith Gregory denied a temporary restraining order sought by the Republican National Committee and state GOP, according to an online

[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.