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By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina’s public schools are facing renewed scrutiny after the Education Law Center released its annual Making the Grade report, which gave the state an overall F for school funding. The report evaluates states based […]

AP NEWS – The new year is a time when many try to start new good habits and commit to improving health and wellness. But resolutions, lofty as they may be, can turn daunting quickly with all the advice and […]

  By Judaea Ingram Staff Writer The line stretched out the door as cars filled the parking lot and spilled onto Tarboro Road outside the Tarboro Road Community Center, where hundreds of families gathered Saturday morning for the 44th annual […]

By Dr. Nora Volkow NIH Saturday, August 31, was International Overdose Awareness Day, when we collectively remember those who have lost their lives to drug overdose, support those who grieve those losses, and offer encouragement to those who seek recovery […]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Boxed lunches eased appetites during North Carolina Black Alliance’s (NCBA) midyear retreat at a Southeast Raleigh church in August. There Marcus Bass was after lunch breaking down the boxes for easier disposal, going about the task with […]

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer In the world of North Carolina politics, Senator Natalie Murdock is proving that authenticity is the ultimate political currency.  As the first Black woman under 40 to serve in our state Senate, Murdock isn’t just […]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Frank S. Greene Jr. stands as one of Silicon Valley’s quiet architects, an engineer whose work on early semiconductor memory chips helped accelerate modern computing. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in St. Louis during […]

JABO, Nigeria (AP) – Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house […]

By: Jordan Meadows, Staff Writer Annie Wealthy Holland’s life story is inseparable from the story of Black education in the early twentieth-century South. Born in 1871 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Holland entered the world on land adjacent to […]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Try as some might to confine Black history to a month, there’s just too much to limit it to 28 days a year. Faith Howell-Bey discovered similarly with Women’s History Month. “When I first created Queens Table […]