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Airing Exclusively Through Amazon Music Channel  On Twitch, Prime Video & Amazon Music App   Featuring Music Performances & Behind-the-Scenes Content With Hosts Wayno, Speedy Morman, Nyla Symone & Amber Grimes   RALEIGH, NC (APRIL 3, 2024) - Global superstar J. Cole and Dreamville, the internationally recognized entertainment brand and multi-platinum record label for which he cofounded, will once again join forces with Amazon Music to present the exclusive livestream of the 2024 Dreamville Festival on Saturday, April

RALEIGH, NC (April 2, 2024) - Global superstar J. Cole and Dreamville, the globally recognized entertainment brand and multi-platinum record label for which he cofounded, have released today Dreamville Festival's 2023 Economic Impact Report, which puts the festival's total economic impact at $145.9 million. In 2023, the two-day event at Raleigh's Dorothea Dix Park also provided the equivalent of over 1,300 full-time jobs. Last year's festival witnessed record-breaking crowds with over 100,000 guests flocking to Raleigh including

By: Dominique Heath, Columnist Angel Yolanda Antoinette Smith, affectionately known as "The Angel", is a remarkable North Carolinian artist and woman-to-know in the creative film industry. Known for her artistic vision and work in acclaimed films and TV shows like "Saturday Night Live," "The Best Man: The Final Chapters," "Severance," and "The Equalizer", along with the highly anticipated Spike Lee movie starring the legendary Denzel Washington-which has yet to be

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 - and a racially biased organ test was to blame. As upsetting as that notification was, it also was part of an unprecedented move to mitigate the racial inequity. Evans is among more than 14,000

  By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer What started as a pop-up shop in 2019 has now evolved into a groundbreaking establishment in downtown Raleigh - Liberation Station Bookstore - and the first of its kind in North Carolina.  Victoria Scott-Miller, the co-visionary behind Liberation Station, is not only the owner of the globally recognized bookstore but also an accomplished author and documentarian.  Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Scott-Miller went

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A student was hospitalized after reports of a shooting at a residence hall at North Carolina Central University, a university spokesperson said. Police were called to Lawson Street Residence Complex at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the university in Durham. The school was placed on lockdown, and a campus alert was issued warning those in the area of an "armed and dangerous person." Officers

Public News Services Marylanders shopping for fresh produce may want to consider a new report that finds chemical residues in much of the crop. In its 2024 "Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce," the nonprofit Environmental Working Group found residue of potentially harmful pesticides on 75% of all conventionally grown produce tested. The group relied on data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, which

(NC NEWSLINE)- In less than two weeks, the Class of 2024 will collect their diplomas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and head into the real world. But last week, UNC faculty members attending the Spring Faculty Council meeting expressed their concerns about the real world unfolding on their own campus. As on other college campuses, a pro-Palestinian tent encampment has popped up in Chapel Hill in

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser. The records purge comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance. The details of the deal emerged in a court filing Monday, more than three months after Google and the attorneys

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Monday that a search of his home last week by prosecutors involved "a private family issue," not a crime. The Democratic mayor held a news conference at City Hall to respond to the execution last Thursday of five search warrants by the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office naming the mayor and his wife, LaQuetta Small, the city's superintendent of schools.