North Carolina Railroad Company Helps Businesses Get Back on Track
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 […]
Read MoreWith Stores Closing, Durham Senior Facility Fights Hunger For The Needy
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 […]
Read MoreA Staircase In A Small Museum Tells A History Of Abuse And Enslavement
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 […]
Read MoreChanging Destinies’ New Leadership
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 […]
Read MoreBlack SEL Hub Launches in Durham
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 […]
Read MoreMedicaid Standoff Could Put Healthcare For Many At Risk
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 […]
Read MoreWounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage In Many Native American Communities
(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 […]
Read MoreThe African Diaspora Film Festival Returns to Chapel Hill
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 […]
Read MoreAssata Shakur: A Voice Of Struggle, A Legacy Of Love
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 […]
Read MoreCharlotte Killing Exposes NC’s Mental Health Failures
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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