Author: The Carolinian

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors sort debris pulled from the bottom of Lake Lure in Rutherford County, North Carolina on April 14, 2025. Vegetative and man-made debris was washed into Lake Lure after Hurricane Helene devastated the region. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Michael Davis)[/caption] NC Newsline - The House unanimously approved $464 million in new relief for western North Carolina on Thursday,

[caption id="attachment_11988" align="alignnone" width="980"] Coco Gauff of the U.S. waves to fans after defeating Australia's Olivia Gadecki during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)[/caption] PARIS (AP) - Coco Gauff caused a brief and amusing delay at the French Open on Tuesday when she stepped onto Court Philippe-Chatrier without her rackets. Gauff looked confused before a ball boy ran out

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1400"] Culpepper, VA, USA - April 21, 2024: Exterior of a Target Department Store on a cloudy day (Photo by Douglas Rissing)[/caption] NNPA - Target Corporation is projecting a decline in annual sales and profits for 2025 as the retail giant struggles with fallout from its decision to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, pressure from new tariffs, and organized boycotts by Black consumers and

[caption id="attachment_11975" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Free Geek employee Ashley Martinez points to the screen while helping John Castro during a keyboard basics class offered by Free Geek on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)[/caption] PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones in western North Carolina. Programs in Oregon and

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer  For many years, the Gullah-Geechee people were thought to exist primarily along the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, distinct communities of African American descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained much of their cultural, linguistic, and culinary heritage. [caption id="attachment_11945" align="alignleft" width="448"] The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a 12,000 square mile National Heritage Area that spans the coastal regions of North Carolina,

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis. From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing "distress" and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander Darnella Frazier uploaded a video that showed the graphic details, including the police's excessive use of force leading up to Floyd's death. Floyd's murder, and Frazier's

By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian The J.W. Ligon Media Center was the scene of a lively community meeting on May 15th at 6:00 p.m. that seemingly the local African-American Community wasn't told about. The topic of the meeting was the fate of the J.W. Ligon Building, which now houses a Middle School. J.W. Ligon Senior High School Alumni attendees were particularly concerned, because no public notice of the

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Navy SEALs based in Virginia are facing disciplinary action for racist conduct, and several of their platoon and team leaders are being disciplined for leadership failures, according to a defense official. The two enlisted Team 4 members are being punished for developing racist memes targeting a Black sailor in their platoon and circulating them in a group chat with other team members, according to the official,

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1017"] Katherine Mitchell in wheelchair is joined by her mom, Michelle Mitchell (Left) and BAYADA staffers as they prepare to visit lawmakers to advocate for better pay for caregivers. (photo: Greg Childress)[/caption] NEWSLINE - Melissa Mitchell and her daughter Katherine Mitchell were among dozens of home health care advocates who came to Raleigh on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to invest more in home health aide services. The

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="880"] Cornell Watson / for WUNC[/caption] By Brianna Atkinson | WUNC The North Carolina Senate's proposal for the upcoming biennial state budget includes more than $180 million in cuts to the state's public universities. The reductions could impact several higher education initiatives, ranging from tuition and academic centers to scholarship programs. One proposal, a $9.5 million cut to the UNC Campus Scholarship Program, could have an outsized impact