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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Black women in the United States continued to face the highest maternal mortality rates, dying at a rate more than three times higher than white women, according to a newly released report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The report, published on February 6, 2025, found that 669 women died from maternal causes in 2023, down from 817 in 2022. The overall maternal mortality

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) - Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents. Decades later, the retired nurse has returned to Hamtramck, settling into a new two-story home on Gallagher Street and watching TV from a fold-up chair while she figures out how she wants to furnish it. She has no mortgage to pay, just

DURHAM, NC (February 18, 2025) Due to the approaching winter storm, which is forecasted to significantly impact the area, GoTriangle will not operate service on Wednesday, February 19. We expect snow and sleet throughout the Triangle area, leading to treacherous road conditions. Thursday, February 20, GoTriangle plans to begin service at Noon until 6 pm if road conditions allow. Road conditions have the potential to become icy and dangerous, which creates

NCNewsline-In 2010, the year North Carolina Republicans won control of both houses of the state legislature, Site Selection Magazine - the self-described "leading publication in corporate real estate, facility planning, location analysis and foreign direct investment" - ranked North Carolina as the nation's fourth "most competitive state." It was a familiar accolade. Throughout most of the previous decade, things like solid infrastructure, low-to-moderate tax rates, forward-looking state leaders, rapidly improving

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Committed to meeting North Carolina's workforce development needs, the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced NC Community Colleges Boost, a new program designed to quickly move students into the high-wage, high-demand careers that will drive our state's future prosperity. Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy that supports research into America's most pressing problems-and evidence-based solutions to address them-is funding this launch with a grant of more than $35.6

During the 1900s, Durham's Black Wall Street was one of the most thriving commercial areas throughout the south. Known as the capital of the Black middle class in America and the Bull City, Black Wall Street became nationally renowned for fostering Black entrepreneurship.  Durham, known as the Mecca of the Black South, birthed the oldest and largest black-owned life insurance company in the United States; N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company

Interviewed and Written by: April Mial (Approved by L'oreal)  For L'oreal Gamble, basketball is more than a sport-it's a platform for empowerment, community building, and entrepreneurial innovation. As a professional player, wife, mother, and now the owner of a semi- professional women's basketball team and women's summer league, L'oreal has turned her lifelong love for the game into a legacy of leadership. Her journey from the North Carolina basketball courts

For many Americans, Donald Trump's head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the rights and liberties of American citizens. But it isn't unprecedented. As we have written, American history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights. America's commitment to these liberal values has competed with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The group were the nation's first Black military pilots. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum confirmed his

Edmond Dédé's "Morgiane" is the world premiere of a long-lost masterpiece WASHINGTON, DC- Opera Lafayette, in partnership with OperaCréole, presents RE|STORE: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane, a concert opera production of the never-performed, long-lost masterpiece believed to be the earliest extant opera by a Black American. This world premiere tour will take place in four cities across the United States including New Orleans, Washington, DC, New York City, and then College Park,