Author: The Carolinian

WASHINGTON (AP) - Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision - the fabled Brown v. Board of Education, taught in most every American classroom - still stands. But for decades, American schools have been re-segregating. The country is more diverse than it ever has been, with students more exposed to classmates from different backgrounds. Still,

NC Newsline - While the immediate destruction from Hurricane Helene has subsided, the storm's economic aftershocks have only just begun. At stake is western North Carolina's tourism industry, which brings in nearly $7.7 billion in visitor dollars each year, according to 2023 estimates - about a fifth of the state's total. For now, the massive infrastructure damage to the region through flooding, mudslides, and toppled trees has ground that spending to

WASHINGTON (AP) - With registration deadlines looming, Democrats and civil rights groups are asking election officials in the states ravaged by Hurricane Helene to give voters more time. A judge in South Carolina on Friday extended that state's deadline to Oct. 14, but prospects are uncertain in the other hard-hit states. In North Carolina, one of the most fiercely contested presidential battlegrounds, election officials aren't planning to extend the Oct.

NC Newsline - More than 104,000 North Carolinians have registered for assistance from FEMA as of Monday, according to Gov. Roy Cooper. FEMA has paid more than $27 million to disaster survivors who have applied for individual assistance funds as of Saturday. The federal government has provided temporary housing and hotel rooms for thousands of affected individuals. Western North Carolina typically brings in around $7.7 billion in visitor dollars each

SC Daily Gazette-Tens of thousands of striking dockworkers returned to work after they reached a tentative labor agreement Thursday, ending a stoppage that threatened to cripple commerce nationwide into the holidays. The International Longshoremen's Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd., announced that they reached a tentative agreement on wages and agreed to extend their contract until Jan. 15. The union and the alliance, which represents shipping companies and

(AP)-As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace. Each day since the killing on Aug. 9, 2014, she had watched her daughter, Brittany, leave the safety of home to protest the grotesque manner in which the 18-year-old Brown had been treated, his body lying in the street

SC Daily Gazette-In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He also had a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe's celebrated novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which historians have argued helped trigger the Civil War

The City of Durham's Cultural and Public Art Program invites artists and artist teams to submit portfolios as an entry to join the City of Durham Pre-Qualified Artist Registry. This registry will serve as a resource for the program's selection of artists and artist teams to create City cultural and public art projects. Access to a predetermined network of qualified artists saves artists and staff members valuable time by making

By: Dominic Taylor  University of California The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era. Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Jones were giants in my industry. They were Black performers whose ascents to stardom occurred in the tumultuous 1960s, when I was an infant. All three were politically active, although each operated in a significantly different way. In 1967, there were more than

LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 84. He died Aug. 21 of natural causes in Los Angeles. Amos' publicist, Belinda Foster, confirmed the news of his death Tuesday. He played James Evans Sr. on "Good Times," which featured one