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[caption id="attachment_11975" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Free Geek employee Ashley Martinez points to the screen while helping John Castro during a keyboard basics class offered by Free Geek on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)[/caption] PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones in western North Carolina. Programs in Oregon and

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer  For many years, the Gullah-Geechee people were thought to exist primarily along the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, distinct communities of African American descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained much of their cultural, linguistic, and culinary heritage. [caption id="attachment_11945" align="alignleft" width="448"] The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a 12,000 square mile National Heritage Area that spans the coastal regions of North Carolina,

By Ms Jheri Worldwide  Staff Writer  Get ready, Raleigh, our very own professional basketball team, the Raleigh Firebirds, are delivering electrifying performances and making a real impact in our community for the seventh year! With an impressive 17-3 record, the Firebirds are a force to be reckoned with as they head towards the playoffs, starting May 29th, in Saint Augustine's gym. More than just thrilling basketball, the Firebirds are deeply

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis. From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported Floyd was experiencing "distress" and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander Darnella Frazier uploaded a video that showed the graphic details, including the police's excessive use of force leading up to Floyd's death. Floyd's murder, and Frazier's

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer  In a pivotal move toward addressing long-standing transportation challenges, the Raleigh City Council has endorsed a proposal that could reshape one of the city's busiest corridors. In a 7-1 vote during the May 6 council meeting, members supported a plan to implement tolls on Capital Boulevard (U.S. 1) - a key arterial road connecting I-540 in North Raleigh to Wake Forest - as part of

By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian The J.W. Ligon Media Center was the scene of a lively community meeting on May 15th at 6:00 p.m. that seemingly the local African-American Community wasn't told about. The topic of the meeting was the fate of the J.W. Ligon Building, which now houses a Middle School. J.W. Ligon Senior High School Alumni attendees were particularly concerned, because no public notice of the

By Jordan Meadows  Staff Writer  In June 2023, the Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to approve a resolution acknowledging the enduring consequences of slavery and Jim Crow laws on Black families. The resolution affirms that African American residents have been unjustly "enslaved, lynched, segregated, and incarcerated." Among the injustices explicitly named in the document: housing discrimination by banks, governments, and the real estate market. But just a year later, new

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Navy SEALs based in Virginia are facing disciplinary action for racist conduct, and several of their platoon and team leaders are being disciplined for leadership failures, according to a defense official. The two enlisted Team 4 members are being punished for developing racist memes targeting a Black sailor in their platoon and circulating them in a group chat with other team members, according to the official,

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1017"] Katherine Mitchell in wheelchair is joined by her mom, Michelle Mitchell (Left) and BAYADA staffers as they prepare to visit lawmakers to advocate for better pay for caregivers. (photo: Greg Childress)[/caption] NEWSLINE - Melissa Mitchell and her daughter Katherine Mitchell were among dozens of home health care advocates who came to Raleigh on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to invest more in home health aide services. The

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="880"] Cornell Watson / for WUNC[/caption] By Brianna Atkinson | WUNC The North Carolina Senate's proposal for the upcoming biennial state budget includes more than $180 million in cuts to the state's public universities. The reductions could impact several higher education initiatives, ranging from tuition and academic centers to scholarship programs. One proposal, a $9.5 million cut to the UNC Campus Scholarship Program, could have an outsized impact