Author: The Carolinian

THE CONVERSATION - Having Black teachers and other educators of color improves students' classroom experiences, research shows. They often serve as role models, set high academic expectations and teach material that connects to students' lives outside of schools. This can lead to higher standardized test scores, better school attendance and more classroom engagement - particularly when it comes to students who share their teacher's racial or ethnic background, but also

NC Public Press - "Where calling meets college." That's the pitch of Elevation College, an offshoot of Matthews-based Elevation Church opening for students this fall. The college will offer eight four-year bachelor's degree programs in majors like pastoral care and counseling, production, biblical studies and digital media and design, as well as two-year associate degrees in general education and ministerial leadership. Elevation is the largest church in North Carolina by

By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer Former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is being sued in Guilford County Superior Court for allegedly falsely suing a local Greensboro man during his 2024 Republican campaign for governor. Louis Love Money, a Greensboro musician, filed his compliant on May 26th, alleging that Robinson falsely filed suit against him in 2024 when Robinson sued both Money and CNN for defamation, after the cable news network reported

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills. A small group of opponents has been demonstrating at the drilling location and at the mining company's headquarters in what they call a land defense effort since they learned ground was broken

AP NEWS - Boots Riley holds nothing back in his audacious, surrealist social satire "I Love Boosters." The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social consciousness that's impossible not to admire for its wacky, bold vision, with teleporting, high fashion snobbery and pyramid schemes. Here is a movie where we get Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige leading a vigilante shoplifting operation, Demi Moore as a

[caption id="attachment_18142" align="alignnone" width="2560"] A thirsty squirrel drinks from a sprinkler nozzle in Research Triangle Park amid drought conditions on May 28. Photo by Steve Worthy.[/caption] RALEIGH - Recent rainfall helped improve drought conditions in some parts of the state, but most of the state remains in extreme or severe drought, according to the N.C. Drought Management Advisory Council. The exceptional drought classification has been removed. "The weekend rains were

NC Newsline - It's still unclear exactly what happened on the afternoon of Dec. 21, 2025, when 13-year-old Jaleeyah Tune was shot and killed while walking home with her sister. Three teens were arrested in connection with her death, according to the Goldsboro Police Department. Tune's family will not speak publicly about what they believe happened that day. But in the months since her death, her mother, Whitney Brown-Tune, has

AP NEWS - As playwright Aleshea Harris tells it, something felt missing when she first sat down to write her searing and startling play "Is God Is," which made waves off-Broadway in 2018. Harris was writing an epic story of Black female revenge, one that drew on Greek tragedy and mythology, but also spaghetti westerns and a liberal dose of Quentin Tarantino, among other things. There was a hero character,

THE GUARDIAN - Taiba Akhuetie's art is uncomfortable to look at. This is mostly because you're not sure whether you're in the presence of something alive or dead. She uses hair as her medium, constructing mundane items out of synthetic and human locks. Handbags, mirrors, rocking chairs and umbrellas are adorned with long, chunky braids and loose, pin-straight strands. The result is that these inanimate objects take on the eerie

NC Newsline - America is experiencing a housing crisis that touches nearly every community and forces economically vulnerable citizens to make impossible decisions, Renee M. Willis, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said on Thursday. "We're talking about choices between rent or medicine, choices between transportation and rent, choices between child care and rent," Willis said. "These are choices that no family should have to make."