Author: Jordan Meadows

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The 2025 North Carolina Affordable Housing Conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday in Raleigh, brought together housing professionals, advocates, developers, and policymakers from across the state to address the pressing issues impacting affordable housing in North Carolina. The event kicked off with a keynote address featuring Dr. Jenny Schuetz, Vice President of Infrastructure and Housing at Arnold Ventures. Schuetz, a former senior fellow at Brookings Metro

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer On Thursday morning at Hillside High School, a historically Black high school in Durham,  students, educators, and community members came together to unveil the nation's first Black Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Liberation Hub. Founded by Kristen Hopkins-Vincent after nearly a decade of development, the Black SEL Hub is a prevention-focused space designed to affirm, uplift, and empower Black students through social-emotional learning and liberation. Hillside

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In a continuation of a growing national movement for justice and equity, the Moral Monday Movement, led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Repairers of the Breach, launched a coordinated wave of protests across 12 Southern states this August. Known as "A Southern Call to Conscience," these actions aim to hold lawmakers accountable for supporting what organizers are calling the "Big, Bad, Ugly,

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer On last Thursday evening, the Wake County Public Library hosted a thought-provoking presentation that honored the complex journeys of early African American actresses in Hollywood.  The presentation was delivered by Dr. Charlene Regester, a renowned scholar and associate professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With decades of research devoted to Black

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Raleigh's streets came alive Sunday afternoon as La Fiesta del Pueblo, the Triangle's largest celebration of Latin American culture, returned for its 31st year.  Held annually as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the cultural event transformed six blocks of Fayetteville Street into a vibrant hub of music, food, art, and community connection. Organized by El Pueblo, a Raleigh-based nonprofit dedicated to leadership development in Wake

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In 1909, a group of African American women came together in North Carolina with a shared goal: to uplift Black communities through organized service and leadership. Their effort led to the founding of the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NCFCWC)-an organization that, for over a century, has remained devoted to improving the lives of women, youth, and families across the state. The NCFCWC

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In July 2025, President Donald Trump signed the "Opportunity for a Big, Beautiful Bill" (OBBB) into law - a sweeping legislative package that included the widely discussed "No Tax on Tips Act." The provision, passed unanimously in the Senate (100-0), marks a rare moment of bipartisan agreement and delivers a long-promised tax break to America's tipped workers. For many of the nearly 4 million U.S.

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Timothy B. Prince, a youth violence prevention specialist and community leader, passed away on September 4, 2025, at the age of 51. Prince was born and raised in Raleigh, graduated from Broughton High School in 1992, and later pursued Criminal Justice at Wake Technical Community College. For over 17 years, he worked in customer service and retail, where he developed leadership and communication skills.  In

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Moses Grandy was a Black abolitionist, seaman, and author born into slavery around 1786 in Camden County, North Carolina. As Grandy recounted in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America, he did not know his exact birth date-a reality for many enslaved people, whose births were rarely recorded. His first enslaver, Billy Grandy, was

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer  At just 20 years old, former Enloe High School star Larry Pickett Jr., now U.S. Military Academy cadet and Army football player, is being celebrated for an act of real-life heroism that reflects the core values of West Point Military Academy. On the heels of Army's narrow 30-27 double-overtime loss to Tarleton State on Friday night, Pickett-still just a college sophomore-found himself in a life-or-death