Paying Reparations For Slavery Is Possible – Based On A Study Of Federal Compensations
By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks Harvard Kennedy School As Americans celebrated Juneteenth, legislation for a commission to study reparations for harms resulting from the enslavement of nearly 4 million people has languished in Congress for more than […]
Read MoreHarris Smashes Record With $81M Haul Over 24 Hours
NEW YORK (AP) – Kamala Harris is smashing fundraising records as the Democratic Party’s donors – big and small – open their wallets for the vice president in the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden’s stunning decision to step aside. […]
Read MoreDemocrats are rallying around Harris as she vows to ‘earn and win’ party nomination for president
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats quickly rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris as their likely presidential nominee Sunday after President Joe Biden’s ground-shaking decision to bow out of the 2024 race, a volatile fast-moving political situation just months before the November election. Shortly after Biden stepped […]
Read MoreSAU Reinstated as SACSCOC Member with Unanimous Reversal Decision
2024 brings another development involving one of North Carolina’s historically black colleges/universities (HBCUs). Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) celebrates a triumph as the arbitration committee appointed by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) decided to reverse […]
Read MoreSale and use of marijuana permitted under ordinance
CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) – The recreational sale and use of marijuana for adults on western North Carolina tribal land could begin this summer after the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians governing board voted for an ordinance expanding approved use […]
Read More‘I Can’t Breathe’: The 10th Anniversary Of Eric Garner Death By Police Chokehold
NEW YORK (AP) – Wednesday marks 10 years since the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry. Bystander video showed Garner gasping the phrase while locked in […]
Read MoreDecades After Billie Holiday’s Death, ‘Strange Fruit’ Is Still a Searing Testament to Injustice
By: Tracy Fessenden Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on […]
Read MoreGene Therapy May Cure Rare Diseases. Drugmakers Have Few Incentives leaving families desperate
(AP)-Robin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden’s rare, inherited immune deficiency. But it’s not available to him. In 2022, London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for the condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. And […]
Read MoreSoccer-Euro-Spain and Russia face UEFA racism charges
By Justin Palmer Reuters WARSAW, June 26 (Reuters) – UEFA has charged the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Russian Football Union (RFS) for racist behaviour and racist chanting by their national teams’ fans during Euro 2012 matches. “UEFA has opened […]
Read More
Do You Have Something To Share?
The Carolinian is North Carolina's community newspaper. Our lives are interconnected just like to highways that run through out cities and towns. We may live in different places. We may have different social circles. However, the one thing that we have in common is reliable information available to all through The Carolinian newspaper. If you have information that is beneficial to the community, submit your article with photos here.