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  By Judaea Ingram Staff Writer The line stretched out the door as cars filled the parking lot and spilled onto Tarboro Road outside the Tarboro Road Community Center, where hundreds of families gathered Saturday morning for the 44th annual Breakfast With Santa, a holiday tradition rooted in the Tarboro Road community and led for decades by Octavia Rainey. Held from 10 a.m. to noon on the Saturday before Christmas,

By Dr. Nora Volkow NIH Saturday, August 31, was International Overdose Awareness Day, when we collectively remember those who have lost their lives to drug overdose, support those who grieve those losses, and offer encouragement to those who seek recovery from addiction. It is also an opportunity to share new knowledge about the overdose crisis and strategies for confronting it. There is some very good news this year: Provisional data

RALEIGH, N.C. - Boxed lunches eased appetites during North Carolina Black Alliance's (NCBA) midyear retreat at a Southeast Raleigh church in August. There Marcus Bass was after lunch breaking down the boxes for easier disposal, going about the task with a certain vigor, like he was the clean-up man for the church. Bass is NCBA's deputy director. He's a big deal. Yet he cared about the person whose job at

[caption id="attachment_15363" align="alignnone" width="900"] Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.People visit the site of a U.S. airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/ Tunde Omolehin)[/caption] JABO, Nigeria (AP) - Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud

RALEIGH, N.C. - Try as some might to confine Black history to a month, there's just too much to limit it to 28 days a year. Faith Howell-Bey discovered similarly with Women's History Month. "When I first created Queens Table Brunch, it was envisioned as a one-time Women's History Month event highlighting the work and legacy of Shaundrelle Watson. She's the founder of The Brown & Black Cultural Exchange, a

[caption id="attachment_15334" align="alignnone" width="1760"] Democracy Green "What's in Your Water" campaign in Raleigh, NC.[/caption] WUNC - When the Trump administration terminated the nearly $2 billion EPA Community Change Grant Program earlier this year, organizations across the nation lost millions of dollars in environmental justice grants. In North Carolina, the birthplace of the environmental justice movement, three organizations have lost more than $41 million in grants combined, due to the termination

[caption id="attachment_15328" align="alignnone" width="780"] Welcome sign to the town of Speed, in eastern Edgecombe County. Lucas Thomae / Carolina Public Press[/caption] Carolina Public Press - SPEED - Despite its name, life moves slowly in the Town of Speed. So does its municipal government, which has been pressured by the state's Local Government Commission to dissolve voluntarily after falling way behind on mandatory financial reports. Speed, a 0.3-square-mile parcel of land

NEW YORK (AP) - The start of a new year usually brings new motivation to achieve goals like eating healthier or finally cleaning your basement. Many resolutions also focus on financial goals, such as paying off credit card debt, saving for a new house, or simply getting more educated about money. "New Year's is a really good time to review and realign your financial goals overall," said Erica Grundza, certified

AP NEWS - During the winter of 2024, Rachel Martin came to a startling realization: She spent most of her free time staring at screens. "I couldn't really think of hobbies or things that I did that took a break from the digital world," she said. With pastimes like watching television, playing video games and creating digital art, Martin, 33, sometimes spent more than 12 hours per day looking at

THE CONVERSATION - As child care costs outpace wages, more families are facing difficult decisions about whether to scale back work in order to care for loved ones. Caregiving remains the top reason women ages 25-54 leave the workforce. And it's not just parents who struggle. Nearly 60 million Americans provide care for an adult family member, and two-thirds say they have trouble balancing their jobs with their caregiving responsibilities.