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By: Ms. Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer Atlanta, GA - InvestFest 2025, produced by Earn Your Leisure, once again powerfully demonstrated the strength of the Black community uniting, sharing ideas, resources, and inspiring one another. The crowd was thicker than ever in my three years of attending this event, drawing people from all corners of the globe. The vendor marketplace showcased a plethora of products and services, while engaging and informative

NC Newsline - Requiring people who register to vote to reveal their full Social Security numbers, as North Carolina legislators have proposed, would violate a 50-year-old federal law, election and privacy experts told NC Newsline.  The requirement that voter applicants supply all nine digits of Social Security numbers to register is in the latest version of House bill 958, a sweeping bill on election changes moving through the House.  The

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1100"] North Carolina school buses are ready to roll out for the start of the 2025-26 school year. (Photo: NCDPI)[/caption] NC Newsline-The first test of the new school year rolls out on Monday as thousands of students wait anxiously for their designated school bus to pick them up and transport them to school on time. It's such a routine event, few students or parents truly appreciate the

[caption id="attachment_13459" align="alignnone" width="1536"] LeVelle Moton (center) turns dirt on site of future Cottages of Idlewild. (Photo by Greg Childress/NC Newsline)[/caption] BY: Jordan Meadows  Staff Writer On Monday, the Raleigh Area Land Trust (RALT), in partnership with Raleigh Raised Development and the City of Raleigh, officially broke ground on the Cottages of Idlewild, the city's first permanently affordable cottage court community. Located in the historically Black neighborhood of Idlewild-the first

NEW YORK (AP) - Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs. An executive order signed last month eliminates a widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth $800 or less starting Friday, nearly two years earlier than the deadline set in the

WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency could look significantly different by next year's hurricane season, with state and local governments shouldering more of the responsibility for natural disaster response and recovery. Members of both political parties have long criticized FEMA, but a bipartisan bill moving along in Congress combined with President Donald Trump's disdain for the agency may provide momentum for a big shift in emergency management. Trump has

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, born Elizabeth Nevills on January 5, 1893, in Carrboro, North Carolina, emerged as one of the most influential figures in American folk and blues music. A self-taught, left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed a singular playing style by flipping a right-handed guitar upside down, creating a distinctive technique in which her thumb played the melody and her fingers plucked the bass strings. This

NC Newsline - Medicaid enrollees began receiving letters from hospitals last month telling them their old medical debts have been erased.   That medical debt relief is part of the program former Gov. Roy Cooper and the former head of the state Department of Health and Human Services announced last year that increases hospitals'  Medicaid payments in exchange for erasing debts amassed by people with lower incomes.  Debt relief letters

By Ms Jheri Worldwide  Staff Writer Taylortown, NC - Periodically, we are blessed with experiences that elevate our thinking, our consciousness, and the way we interact with the people in the world around us. Recently, one of those experiences occurred in Taylortown, a historically Black town adjacent to Pinehurst, North Carolina. In a quasi-judicial hearing that brought together business leaders, attorneys, engineers, and town officials, the Taylortown Town Council convened

[caption id="attachment_13327" align="alignnone" width="1920"] A rendering of the potential redevelopment of Northgate Mall in Durham. Courtesy of Northwood Investors[/caption] By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Last week, Raleigh's Planning Commission unanimously approved a controversial rezoning request that would allow the West at Peace development-a proposed 30-story mixed-use tower near Smoky Hollow-to move forward. The development, backed by Raleigh Development Company, aims to bring over 900 residential units, retail space, restaurants, and