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By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Dan Bullock was 15 years old when he was killed in Vietnam on June 7, 1969, making the Goldsboro native the youngest American service member to die in the war. Bullock was born Dec. 21, 1953, in Goldsboro and lived in North Carolina until he was about 12, when his mother died, and he moved to Brooklyn to live with his father. Family members later

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer A federal appeals panel heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a Wake County woman's challenge to North Carolina's ban on "ballot selfies," weighing whether the state's restrictions on photographing marked ballots violate the First Amendment. Susan Hogarth, a Raleigh native and the 2024 Libertarian candidate for state Senate District 13, sued members of the Wake County Board of Elections and the State Board of

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian DURHAM, N.C. - In a garden in North Durham, restoration means more than planting vegetables. It means reconnecting with the land, building community, sharing food and creating space for Black people to slow down and reconnect with themselves and one another. Those ideas came together Sept. 13 at Soul Sanctuary during Black Restoration Day, a community celebration centered around Soil Sanctuary, a garden

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C - Makai, a 12-year-old 7th grader from Fuquay-Varina, has advanced to the Top 15 in Russell Wilson's Youth Athlete of the Year competition, a national program that recognizes young athletes for making a difference both on and off the field. Top 10 finalists will be announced tonight at 8:00 PM. Makai plays for a local club competing at the National 1 League level, one of the highest levels

By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC-12) is a primary co-signer of a Sept. 8th letter by Massachusetts Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and approximately 60 other members of Congress, to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, requesting an investigation into a troubling "series of deaths" by hanging of Black people across the country in recent weeks. The deaths " raise significant suspicion

[caption id="attachment_19993" align="alignnone" width="2560"] KODAK Digital Still Camera[/caption] Spelman College-MaKyra Wilson, C'2027, recently became the first person to engineer variants of AmiB2, a newly characterized gene involved in bacterial metabolism and cell-wall maintenance, and introduce them into a safer model bacterium used to study Tuberculosis. As a result, the DNA tools used in the discovery will be subsequently named after her and used to support future research. Tuberculosis remains one

WUNC - This fall, colleges of education across North Carolina are welcoming back students who had previously left their programs solely because they struggled to pass a standardized entrance exam. At UNC-Greensboro's School of Education, about 35 students returned. "We saw a large number of music ed students, dance ed students, birth through kindergarten students, and elementary (education) students who returned to the major," said Jacqueline Dozier, Director for Student

NC NEWSLINE - For years, Gerald Carr knew where to turn when his Charlotte construction company needed help navigating North Carolina's state contracting system. Now, Carr said, the rules have changed and businesses like his are scrambling to figure out what comes next. Carr, CEO of All-Pro Builders and Restorations, was among the dozens of Black and minority business owners and advocates who gathered in Greensboro Thursday to press state

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina communities marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks this week with a series of memorial ceremonies, stair climbs, service projects and permanent dedications spanning from Raleigh to Fayetteville. At Chavis Park in Raleigh on Friday, Gov. Josh Stein reflected on the sense of national unity that followed the attacks. "We cannot forget our feelings that day," Stein said. "We

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer Fayetteville, NC - As an educator, there is nothing more frustrating than hearing an announcement during the school day that a bus isn't running. Students lose all focus and have to think about how they will get home. Phone calls must be placed; the teaching and learning process is completely disrupted. Recently, in a tense Cumberland County Board of Education meeting, a veteran school bus