The Brief But Shining Life Of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Conversation – Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn […]
Read MoreMLK Jr.’s Family History From Slavery To Civil Rights
By: Jordan Meadows | Staff Writer The story of Martin Luther King Jr. is widely known, but the influences of the pioneers who came before him are still unfamiliar to many. The spirit of justice and activism that King Jr. […]
Read MoreSonny Kelly Presents The Ongoing Fight for Freedom
By Ms. Jheri Worldwide | Staff Writer A one-man play is a massive undertaking. Add to that an impactful player from every major American conflict since the American Revolution. Sonny Kelly of Legacy Heirs Productions with the support of the […]
Read MoreOttawa W. Gurley: The Visionary Of Black Wall Street
BlackWallStreet.org Contributors: Larry Hill, BWSUSA; Antoine Gara Forbes; Janice Gerda, Case Western Reserve University; Karen Sapp, BWSUSA; Just around the start of the 20th century Ottawa W. Gurley, a wealthy African American land-owner from Arkansas, traversed the United States to participate […]
Read MoreMeet North Carolina’s New State Superintendent Green
By Liz Schlemmer | WUNC What José Oliva remembers most about Mo Green, when he was Superintendent of Guilford County Schools a decade ago, is that he was patient. Oliva, then 15, had recently arrived from Guatemala, when he was […]
Read MoreTrump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better
By: James L. Perry, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Emeritus, Indiana University | The Conversation On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify […]
Read MoreAs US, NC homelessness numbers rise, officials and nonprofits make headway in helping veterans
NC NEWSLINE – An 8% reduction in the number of veterans experiencing homelessness on a given night in January 2024 is the lone bright spot in an otherwise grim U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report documenting homelessness […]
Read MoreWeather Alerts
Action Recommended Make preparations per the instructions Issued By Raleigh/Durham – NC, US, National Weather Service Affected Area Coastal Plain into a portion of the northern Piedmont Description …WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THURSDAY… WHAT…Heavy […]
Read MoreRacial Gap Widened In Deaths Among US Moms At Childbirth
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Black women in the United States continued to face the highest maternal mortality rates, dying at a rate more than three times higher than white women, according to a newly released report from the National […]
Read MoreGenerations Later, A Remedy To Destroying Black Neighborhoods Is Fulfilled In Michigan
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) – Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents. Decades later, the retired nurse has returned to Hamtramck, settling into a […]
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