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After 86 years of serving the African American community across North Carolina, The Carolinian continues to grow and evolve while remaining committed to its mission of informing, uplifting, and connecting the communities it serves. Beginning Monday, May 4, 2026, The Carolinian will officially relocate its office to 1015 Cross Link Road in Raleigh. While the newspaper is transitioning from its longtime building, its presence and commitment to the community remain

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina lawmakers have approved a sweeping Medicaid funding measure that will keep the state's program operating through the end of the fiscal year while introducing a series of new eligibility requirements and oversight provisions. House Bill 696, which passed in both chambers, allocates $319 million from state reserve funds to address a budget shortfall in the Medicaid program. The measure now heads to Gov.

WUNC - For more than half a century, his bad-conduct discharge made it hard for Vietnam veteran Raymond Dick to find work doing anything but manual labor and prevented him from getting VA health care. More than that, it kept the Greensboro native from officially being a retired Marine, said John Brooker, director of UNC-Chapel Hill Law School's Military and Veterans Law Clinic. Marines are famously proud of their ties

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C. - Raleigh Water is implementing water-use restrictions beginning Monday, April 20, in response to ongoing severe drought conditions in central North Carolina that have reduced water levels in the watershed feeding Falls Lake, the region's primary reservoir. City officials say the decision comes as Falls Lake continues to decline under sustained dry conditions. According to data from the U.S. Army Corps

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer Lillington, NC - To the uninitiated, the name Ingersoll Rand often conjures images of heavy-duty power tools and humming air compressors. But inside a pristine, 60,000-square-foot facility in Lillington, the narrative is shifting from mechanical torque to medical breakthroughs. Last Thursday, local leaders, state representatives, and industry executives gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Ingersoll Rand (IR) Life Sciences Technologies site. The event was

THE GUARDIAN - Christopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but he didn't imagine that they were there for him. It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the

ROWAN COUNTY, NC - State officials yesterday unveiled a new highway marker in Rowan County to honor Piedmont Credit Union, the first African American credit union established in the United States. Founded in Rowan County in 1918 by local farmer Thomas B. Patterson and a handful of neighbors, Piedmont Credit Union gave Black farmers fair access to credit in an era defined by Jim Crow laws and economic exploitation. For

By Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian DURHAM, N.C. - Triangle Performance Ensemble, the same company behind Black Nativity Durham, brought its world premiere stage drama The Third Day to Hillside High School in Durham from April 17 through April 19, 2026. The Saturday, April 18 at 3:00 p.m. showing reached a sold-out crowd, setting the tone for a weekend of strong community turnout and emotional engagement. The production, hosted

WUNC - More than 70 years since its founding, the Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center is officially being recognized by North Carolina with a Highway Historical Marker as the state's first mosque. Cheers and yells of "Allahu akbar!", or "God is greater!" broke out when the marker was unveiled on Friday afternoon, commemorating state recognition of the historically Black mosque in Durham's West End. Established in 1956 by Imam Kenny Muhammad from

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Eddie Murphy took a moment to look out at the star-studded room at the American Film Institute ceremony - at his family, his peers, the people who have shared his journey - and let it all sink in. "Seeing all of my family, all my kids, my beautiful wife, and seeing all the different people I worked with, I'm just really filled up," said Murphy, who