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By: Chris Lamb The Conversation John Rivers, John Bailey, David Middleton, Leroy Major and Buck Godfrey - all teammates from the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Star team - left Charleston, South Carolina, on a bus on Aug. 18, 2025. After a stop at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for a couple days - where their story is included in an exhibit on Black baseball

[caption id="attachment_13449" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Hampton infielder Mo'ne Davis (3) fields a ground ball during an NCAA game (AP Photo/Mike Caudill)[/caption] AP NEWS-Hundreds of women will flock to Washington on Friday to take their first swings at turning pro baseball dreams into reality. Some at the historic tryout will be seasoned veterans and trailblazers in the women's game. Plenty others are beginners chasing a shot at the pros. They'll meet on

Atlanta, GA-The sight of a vehicle driving itself, with a passenger in the back and an empty driver's seat, might seem like a scene from a science-fiction movie. But for many, this is becoming a daily reality. The question is, are we ready for this shift? The Carolinian sat down with autonomous vehicle expert Allanté V. Whitmore, PhD, Executive Board Vice President for PAVE (Partners for AV Education), to discuss

[caption id="attachment_13469" align="alignnone" width="1536"] Teachers at a WakeEd Partnership event Aug. 21, 2025: (Photo by Ahmed Jallow/NCNewsline)[/caption] By: Ahmed Jallow NC Newsline Justin Lane teaches agriculture electives at Carnage Magnet Middle School in Wake County, where students plant, measure and diagram their own gardens. That means his classroom needs a diverse toolkit. Scissors to trim plants, construction paper to draw plants, identifying rulers to measure growth, and a lot of

By: Ms. Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer Dunn, NC - A recent incident at a local grocery store has ignited concerns about the implications of North Carolina's permitless carry law and the importance of responsible firearm handling. On Sunday, August 16th, at approximately 12:15PM, a startling event unfolded at the Carlie C's grocery store at the East Cumberland location in Dunn, North Carolina. According to a witness, a loud bang sound

By Nick de la Canal  WFAE North Carolina lawmakers return to Raleigh this week to continue hammering out the state budget, and one of the biggest questions hanging over them is the future of Medicaid expansion. Nearly 680,000 North Carolinians have gained coverage since the program launched in 2023. But President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," the sweeping tax and spending package signed into law earlier this summer, could put

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