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By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The 2025 North Carolina Affordable Housing Conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday in Raleigh, brought together housing professionals, advocates, developers, and policymakers from across the state to address the pressing issues impacting affordable housing in North […]

Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) joins with the global community of scholars, historians, educators, and alumni to mourn the passing of Dr. Quintard Taylor (December 11, 1948 – September 21, 2025), a truly distinguished class of 1969 alumnus whose life’s work elevated […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]