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NCCU Celebrates New Peggy Ward Financial Education Center Opening

February 20, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer At North Carolina Central University, a milestone was marked Tuesday morning with the ribbon cutting of the Peggy M. Ward Financial Education Center, a space university leaders say will shape financial futures for generations of […]

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Exhibit Honors Black Architects And Builders Who Shaped North Carolina

February 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer At North Carolina Central University’s James E. Shepard Memorial Library, a bold banner greets visitors with three simple words: “We Built This.” ​Beneath it, the exhibit explains, “Many of the historic buildings we revere in […]

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Less Revenue, Fewer Services? NC Has A Tax Conundrum

February 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Nicole Quick Carolina Forward Following a growing national trend, the NC House introduced a bill in April 2025 that would study the state’s property tax reduction programs with a goal of reform. NC House Bill 432 would direct the […]

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Black History Highlight: The Everlasting Words of Phillis Wheatley

February 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer No more, America, in mournful strain Of wrongs, and grievance unredress’d complain, No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t’enslave the land. […]

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Decision On The Fate Of J.W. Ligon Coming Soon

February 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian An Analysis The J.W. Ligon Magnet Middle School Auditorium was the scene Feb. 9 th of the Second Listening Session held by the Wake County Public School System to get input on the […]

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Republicans and NC elections board settle federal voter registration lawsuit

February 19, 2026 | 0 Comments

NC NEWSLINE – The Republican National Committee has settled a federal lawsuit with the state Board of Elections over missing information on voter registration forms. Under the settlement filed Monday, the state agreed to continue its Registration Repair project seeking […]

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Thousands Of Moral Leaders, Clergy Gathered For “Love Forward Together” 

February 18, 2026 | 0 Comments

RALEIGH, N.C. –  On Valentine’s Day and Frederick Douglass’s chosen birthday- thousands of moral, faith, and community leaders gathered for the “Love Forward Together” Mass People’s Assembly & Moral March at the North Carolina State Capitol. The rally follows a […]

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon, Presidential Candidate, Dies At Age 84

February 18, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Karen Juanita Carrillo NY Amsterdam News Civil Rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., whose career took him from his early collaboration with Martin Luther King to creating the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to two runs for the presidency and ultimately passing […]

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Young ladies too tired to stand at a Black debutante ball: Miranda Barnes’s best photograph

February 18, 2026 | 0 Comments

THE GUARDIAN – My new book Social Season opens with a poem set in the mid-1800s, a time that marked the beginning of a period of increased financial prosperity for some African Americans. Cotillion dances have European origins, but in […]

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Black History Spotlight: William and Ellen Craft

February 17, 2026 | 0 Comments

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer William and Ellen Craft’s story truly inspires my relentless ambitions. I tell her story to anyone who will listen. Like Ellen and William, I feel determined to find a way even though the path is […]

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