Author: Jordan Meadows

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Frank S. Greene Jr. stands as one of Silicon Valley's quiet architects, an engineer whose work on early semiconductor memory chips helped accelerate modern computing. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in St. Louis during an era of racial segregation, Greene showed an early talent for math and science. Encouraged by his parents to pursue education despite systemic barriers, he became one of the first

By: Jordan Meadows, Staff Writer Annie Wealthy Holland's life story is inseparable from the story of Black education in the early twentieth-century South. Born in 1871 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Holland entered the world on land adjacent to the Wealthy plantation, where her grandmother had been enslaved. She was named after Annie Wealthy, the plantation owner who had freed her grandfather. From an early age, Holland understood education

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The roots of HBCU football trace back to December 27, 1892, when Biddle College, now Johnson C. Smith University, defeated Livingstone College in what is recognized as the first intercollegiate football game between two Black institutions. Played on the snowy lawn of Livingstone's campus in North Carolina, the game was organized with minimal resources: uniforms sewn by students, cleats added to street shoes, and

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way we communicate, influencing not only the tools we use but also the structure, tone, and rhythm of modern language. As these systems become more embedded in everyday life, they quietly redefine ideas of clarity, efficiency, and correctness in written English, raising questions about authorship, authenticity, and the future of language itself. The paragraph you just read was written

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Before Brick became known as a place of learning, the land in Edgecombe County carried the weight of the Civil War and slavery. As Union armies moved south in a final effort to end the conflict, General Oliver O. Howard passed through North Carolina, while General L.G. Estes traveled an eastern route through towns such as New Bern, Kinston, and Rocky Mount. When Estes

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Holiday shoppers across Wake County had no shortage of festive options over the weekend as two major vendor markets brought together local businesses and unique gifts for the holidays. The weekend kicked off Friday in Cary with the Cary Vintage Holiday Market, which marked the final vintage market of theirs for the year. Hosted by Vicious Fishes Brewery, South Line Brewing Company, and Hummingbird Collective

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In the years following the Civil War, when the promise of freedom demanded real institutions to sustain it, the Thompson Institute emerged in Lumberton, North Carolina, as one of the most important educational lights for African Americans in the state. Born from former slaves, the origins of the Thompson Institute trace back to the founding of the Lumber River Missionary Baptist Association in 1877 in

NC NEWSLINE - The North Carolina State Board of Education on Wednesday focused on increasing pay for teachers and other school staff as it discussed its legislative priorities for the upcoming 2026 short session. Geoff Coltrane, senior director of government affairs at the Department of Public Instruction, warned that he expects "very limited revenue" in the year ahead and that legislators in Raleigh may not even pass a full budget

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the U.S. economy, lawmakers, state attorneys general, and the White House are accelerating efforts to advance competing visions for national oversight. With Congress unable to pass comprehensive AI legislation, the policy vacuum has driven state leaders and federal officials to craft their own approaches-culminating this week in two major developments: a bipartisan state-led AI Task Force and President Donald Trump's

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The Senate is barreling toward a major health-care showdown as enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, threatening steep premium hikes for more than 20 million Americans. Without congressional action, subsidies will revert to their original 2010 levels, driving up out-of-pocket costs and likely pushing many people out of the insurance marketplace. Yet Republicans remain sharply