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RALEIGH, N.C. - Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt received the inaugural Vanguard Award for Public Leadership and Service during the first anniversary celebration of Women Executives Circle at the North Carolina Executive Mansion. Hunt also accepted an honor on behalf of Gov. Josh Stein as four North Carolina municipalities proclaimed Sept. 3 as Women Executives Circle Day. Women Executives Circle, or WEC, is a statewide network of senior women leaders founded

HOUSTON DEFENDER - A new report from Word In Black's Insights & Research Division reveals that Black Americans recognize the link between food and health but encounter economic and structural challenges impacting their dietary choices. Black Americans are intensely aware of the connection between food and health but face economic and structural barriers that limit what they can actually put on the table, according to a new report from Word

By  Judaea Ingram Special To The Carolinian JOHNSTON COUNTY - On a stretch of land that has remained in one North Carolina family for more than 80 years, history is being preserved in a way that extends far beyond property lines. What began as farmland purchased by the Gooch family in 1944 has evolved into a community gathering place where thousands of people come together each year for rodeos, concerts,

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer American engineer George Pullman began hiring formerly enslaved Black men as porters on his company's luxury sleeping cars shortly after the Civil War. Pullman founded the Pullman Palace Car Company to capitalize on the country's expanding rail network, introducing "Palace Cars"-dubbed "hotels on wheels"-outfitted with beds, chandeliers and high-end dining that let passengers socialize in lounge cars, eat in dining cars and rest comfortably in

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A television game show in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents' mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away in Zimbabwe, learning a language her parents feared she would never

[caption id="attachment_19861" align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Steve Worthy[/caption] By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer An estimated 40,000 people packed Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh over Labor Day weekend for the 17th Annual African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh & Wake County. First established in 2010, the festival has grown into one of the region's premier cultural events and a major driver of Labor Day weekend tourism, drawing families, artists, tourists, and

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer The world was robbed and hip hop culture was brought to its knees when visionary rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle was murdered in front of his Los Angeles store. Born Ermias Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 - March 31, 2019) widely known as Nipsey Hussle and Neighborhood Nip preached self determination and entrepreneurship to anyone who would listen. I met Nipsey Hussle around 2016, in

  Victoria Bekiempis The Guardian A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water. That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court's dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights. Those residents of Mississippi's

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer Lillington, NC - True community wealth is measured by how well we feed our children, preserve our soil, and invest in our neighbors. This week marks the official public launch of Project Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas), an ambitious, farm-to-school nutrition proposal presented to the Harnett County Board of Commissioners and Harnett County School Board by your author Jheri Hardaway. At its core, the initiative establishes a

RALEIGH, NC-North Carolina public school students marked another year of noteworthy academic progress in 2025-26, achieving a record-high graduation rate and improving performance on most standardized tests, according to data presented Wednesday to the State Board of Education. The four-year cohort graduation rate rose to 88.8% in 2025-26, up from a record 87.8% in the previous year, thereby marking a new historic high. This graduation rate moves North Carolina's public