Author: The Carolinian

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."

NC HEALTH NEWS - When first responders responded within minutes to a 911 call from Clayton Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Johnston County, they arrived to find that resuscitation had not yet begun. The resident was pronounced dead just over 30 minutes after the call. At the same nursing home, a resident asked for her wound dressing to be changed after reporting pain and a foul odor. Staff allegedly declined

By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian A Ligon Legacy Committee, formulated by Wake County Public School Superintendent Dr. Robert Taylor, has had two meetings to "Provide cultural insight, historical context, and community perspective in telling the story of J.W. Ligon Jr./Sr. High School and provide inspiration for the reimagined Ligon Middle School." The Committee is composed of the WCPSS Superintendent, two WCPSS Board members, two City Council Members, three

NC NEWSLINE - Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project. And most have been fairly recent purchases. The companies acquired more than 1.7 million of those, or 57%, since 2018, and about 45% of them since 2021, the report found. More than two-thirds of those units are

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The purple glow sticks lit up the arena before tipoff Thursday night as fans wearing paper crowns filled the stands for the Charlotte Crown's historic home opener against the Jacksonville Waves. Outside the arena, families gathered around inflatable games, face painting stations, balloons, and photo areas decorated for the inaugural UPSHOT League season. By the time the game began, the energy inside the building was impossible to

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded the number of refugee places available for white South Africans, saying there have been "recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence" against them by their Black-led government and other political parties. It's not clear what incitement Trump was referring to when his administration made the announcement Tuesday of 10,000 additional places for white South Africans in

THE CONVERSATION - With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV has signaled that he wants the church to respond to artificial intelligence much as a predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, responded to upheavals during the Industrial Revolution over a century ago. Since the first act of his papacy - choosing his name - the current pope has repeatedly invoked the earlier Leo's