Author: The Carolinian

NC NEWSLINE - On a steamy September morning, all of North Carolina's agricultural bounty is on display at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh. The boxes and crates of neatly stacked fruits and vegetables stand in stark contrast to new data that reveals a worsening hunger crisis in North Carolina. According to Feeding America's annual Map the Meal Gap analysis, 1 in 7 North Carolinians are unsure where their next

THE CONVERSATION - Lactose intolerance makes drinking milk or eating ice cream a literal pain. For some people, eating a dairy treat can lead to bloating, nausea and diarrhea. You might've experienced its effects yourself. If so, you may think of lactose intolerance as a defect rather than the norm. But did you know that most people in the world today are lactose intolerant - and that the condition itself

NC NEWSLINE - Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, and 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there, thousands gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial Friday. Organizers focused the anniversary march around a "Defend the Vote" message. The event, co-chaired

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable source of energy independent of the commercial electric grid. The announcement comes as the Trump administration pushes hard to develop the next generation of nuclear power, including billions in loans for large nuclear reactors to meet skyrocketing power demand from data centers and

NC NEWSLINE - Ronald Hayes was cautious when he talked to a reporter this week about the political TV advertisement he appears in, talking about the death of his son Shemar, a college football player who was murdered in Charlotte in March 2024 at age 23. "I have already been swindled into an ad that was about politics, which I don't want to be about," Hayes told NC Newsline on

NC NEWSLINE - Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Wednesday that Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, will pay North Carolina up to $645 million and make major safety upgrades in a landmark case involving 47 states. Meta will pay unto $17.1 billion to the states in the second-largest state consumer protection settlement in history. "My wife and I have three kids. We know how hard it is to argue

NC HEALTH NEWS - Inside North Carolina prisons, incarcerated people have long turned to fellow prisoners for guidance about faith, conflict, grief, addiction and simply how to navigate life behind bars. An increasing number of those people are "field ministers" - incarcerated men who have earned a four-year bachelor's degree in pastoral ministry while also receiving training in counseling and other skills. After graduation, the field ministers - many serving

By WakeMed In May, WakeMed and Atrium Health announced plans to form a strategic combination that would unite WakeMed, the largest health system in Wake County, with Atrium Health, which includes more than 40 hospitals and cares for North Carolinians across the state. Atrium Health is part of Advocate Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country. With this agreement, WakeMed would become part of the Charlotte-based

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Shaw University gave preseason CIAA contender Fayetteville State all it could handle Saturday night, building a double-digit first-half lead and pulling within one score late before falling 33-20 in the 2026 season opener at Luther "Nick" Jeralds Stadium. The Bears, picked 10th in the CIAA preseason predicted order of finish, showed little concern for the preseason projections early against a Fayetteville State squad selected third. Shaw scored

By Pippa Neill The Guardian Almost half of the world's farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46%