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By Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Safi Bugel  Roberta Flack, the US singer behind a string of hits including Killing Me Softly With His Song, has died aged 88. "We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025," a statement from her spokesperson read. "She died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator." With her graceful presence,

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] N.C. A&T University students on campus. (Photo: NC A&T University)[/caption] BY: GREG CHILDRESS | NC Newsline Congresswoman Alma Adams issued a statement late last week criticizing the Trump administration's decision to suspend the 1890 Scholars Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). [caption id="attachment_177144" align="alignleft" width="300"]  Congresswoman Alma Adams (Screengrab from Zoom meeting)[/caption]  The Scholars Program was established in 1992 in partnership with USDA and the nation's

BY: ROBBIE SEQUEIRA | Stateline Across the country, state lawmakers are finding rare bipartisan ground on an increasingly urgent issue for educators and parents: banning cellphone use in schools. Fueling these bans is growing research on the harmful effects of smartphone and social media use on the mental health and academic achievement of grade to high school students. In 2024, at least eight states - California, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia - either expanded

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump. "While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not

The Conversation - Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century. He was the first Black American to make a living as a writer and was seminal in the start of the New Negro Movement and Harlem

BlackWallStreet.org Contributors: Larry Hill, BWSUSA; Antoine Gara Forbes; Janice Gerda, Case Western Reserve University; Karen Sapp, BWSUSA; Just around the start of the 20th century Ottawa W. Gurley, a wealthy African American land-owner from Arkansas, traversed the United States to participate in the Oklahoma Land run of 1889. The young entrepreneur had just resigned from a presidential appointment under president Grover Cleveland in order to strike out on his own. In

By Liz Schlemmer | WUNC  What José Oliva remembers most about Mo Green, when he was Superintendent of Guilford County Schools a decade ago, is that he was patient. Oliva, then 15, had recently arrived from Guatemala, when he was invited to be on Green's student advisory council. The group of mostly valedictorians and student body presidents would gather in a school library. "Then there was me," Oliva recalled. "Who

By: James L. Perry, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Emeritus, Indiana University | The Conversation On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump's second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers - out of more than 2 million total - to make them easier for the president to fire as well. The order

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] The alcove of a vacant building in downtown Raleigh provides temporary shelter for North Carolina's homeless population. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)[/caption] NC NEWSLINE - An 8% reduction in the number of veterans experiencing homelessness on a given night in January 2024 is the lone bright spot in an otherwise grim U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report documenting homelessness in America. The report found

Action Recommended Make preparations per the instructions Issued By Raleigh/Durham - NC, US, National Weather Service Affected Area Coastal Plain into a portion of the northern Piedmont Description ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THURSDAY... WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation. Additional snow and sleet accumulations up to one inch and ice accumulations around one tenth of an inch. WHERE...Coastal Plain into a portion of the northern Piedmont. WHEN...Until