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NC Newsline-North Carolina is the only state in the country where teacher pay is expected to drop this year, according to a new report from the National Education Association. The 2026 report ranks North Carolina 46th in the nation for average teacher pay. The state fell three spots from last year. Average salaries in the state are projected at $59,971 for the 2025-26 school year. That is a decrease from

WUNC - The majority leader of the North Carolina House has filed a bill to withhold state funding from school districts or charter schools that violate the previously passed "Parents' Bill of Rights." That law bars public schools from teaching about gender identity, sexuality or sexual orientation or from keeping school materials about those subjects. Representative Brenden Jones (R-Robeson) announced he was filing the new bill at the end of

[caption id="attachment_17441" align="alignnone" width="1760"] Aaron Sanchez-Guerra / WUNC: The mural painted in memory of Andrew Brown Jr. on the side of the home he rented on Perry St. in Elizabeth City.[/caption] WUNC - Five years ago, 42-year-old Andrew Brown, Jr. died in his car a few yards away from his home in Elizabeth City, with a deputy sheriff's bullet in the back of his head. Brown Jr.'s death in 2021

After 86 years of serving the African American community across North Carolina, The Carolinian continues to grow and evolve while remaining committed to its mission of informing, uplifting, and connecting the communities it serves. Beginning Monday, May 4, 2026, The Carolinian will officially relocate its office to 1015 Cross Link Road in Raleigh. While the newspaper is transitioning from its longtime building, its presence and commitment to the community remain

WUNC - For more than half a century, his bad-conduct discharge made it hard for Vietnam veteran Raymond Dick to find work doing anything but manual labor and prevented him from getting VA health care. More than that, it kept the Greensboro native from officially being a retired Marine, said John Brooker, director of UNC-Chapel Hill Law School's Military and Veterans Law Clinic. Marines are famously proud of their ties

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C. - Raleigh Water is implementing water-use restrictions beginning Monday, April 20, in response to ongoing severe drought conditions in central North Carolina that have reduced water levels in the watershed feeding Falls Lake, the region's primary reservoir. City officials say the decision comes as Falls Lake continues to decline under sustained dry conditions. According to data from the U.S. Army Corps

THE GUARDIAN - Christopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but he didn't imagine that they were there for him. It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the

ROWAN COUNTY, NC - State officials yesterday unveiled a new highway marker in Rowan County to honor Piedmont Credit Union, the first African American credit union established in the United States. Founded in Rowan County in 1918 by local farmer Thomas B. Patterson and a handful of neighbors, Piedmont Credit Union gave Black farmers fair access to credit in an era defined by Jim Crow laws and economic exploitation. For

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian DURHAM, N.C. - Triangle Performance Ensemble, the same company behind Black Nativity Durham, brought its world premiere stage drama The Third Day to Hillside High School in Durham from April 17 through April 19, 2026. The Saturday, April 18 at 3:00 p.m. showing reached a sold-out crowd, setting the tone for a weekend of strong community turnout and emotional engagement. The production, hosted

WUNC - More than 70 years since its founding, the Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center is officially being recognized by North Carolina with a Highway Historical Marker as the state's first mosque. Cheers and yells of "Allahu akbar!", or "God is greater!" broke out when the marker was unveiled on Friday afternoon, commemorating state recognition of the historically Black mosque in Durham's West End. Established in 1956 by Imam Kenny Muhammad from