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North Carolina Railroad Company Helps Businesses Get Back on Track

October 5, 2025

RALEIGH, N.C.– One year after Hurricane Helene, Western North Carolina is rebuilding with help from the North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR). Through its award-winning Back-on-Track Disaster Recovery Program, NCRR invested $8.2 million to support local businesses, restore rail infrastructure and strengthen […]

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With Stores Closing, Durham Senior Facility Fights Hunger For The Needy

October 4, 2025

By Greg Childress NC Newsline At the top of Fayetteville Street in Durham, about a mile from the city’s bustling downtown, a Walgreen’s has closed. It sits idle in a mostly low-income, historic part of town whose prosperous edges are […]

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A Staircase In A Small Museum Tells A History Of Abuse And Enslavement

October 4, 2025

By Susanna Ashton and Mollie Barnes  The Conversation From the ages of 12 to about 22, Harriet Jacobs lived under the watch of her enslaver, a wealthy physician named James Norcom Sr. During that decade, as Jacobs grew from a […]

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Changing Destinies’ New Leadership

October 4, 2025

By Jheri Hardaway Staff Writer Pinehurst, NC – Changing Destinies Ministry is proud to announce that Renee Cassidy has been named Executive Director, effective September 23, 2025. She succeeds Kym Nixon, who will continue her service as President and co-founder […]

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Black SEL Hub Launches in Durham

October 3, 2025

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer On Thursday morning at Hillside High School, a historically Black high school in Durham,  students, educators, and community members came together to unveil the nation’s first Black Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Liberation Hub. Founded by […]

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Medicaid Standoff Could Put Healthcare For Many At Risk

October 3, 2025

By Jaymie Baxley North Carolina Health News Efforts to prevent cuts that could significantly lower reimbursement to providers for services for North Carolinians on Medicaid stalled last week amid a three-way standoff between the state’s Senate, House of Representatives and […]

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Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage In Many Native American Communities

October 3, 2025

(AP)-Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre had their hopes dashed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in his effort to root out what he calls […]

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The African Diaspora Film Festival Returns to Chapel Hill

October 3, 2025

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Last Thursday, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History at UNC-Chapel Hill hosted an edition of its Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, continuing a tradition that began in […]

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Assata Shakur: A Voice Of Struggle, A Legacy Of Love

October 2, 2025

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA  The passing of Assata Shakur has left a deep void in those who saw her as more than a revolutionary. She was a mother, poet, and symbol of liberation whose life embodied struggle […]

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Charlotte Killing Exposes NC’s Mental Health Failures

October 2, 2025

NCHealth News-In early September, video of a man stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a light rail car in Charlotte shocked the country. People from across the political spectrum demanded answers: How does a horrific, unprovoked attack […]

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