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By: Robbie Sequeira Stateline State lawmakers across the country filed more bills to restrict or protect libraries and readers in the first half of this year than last year, a new report found. The split fell largely along geographic lines, […]

By: Ms Jheri Worldwide  Staff Writer Recently PBS North Carolina’s CEO, David Crabtree, went on record regarding federal funding cuts and what’s at stake following federal funding cuts to public media. Crabtree discussed the impact on our community  and how […]

By: Amanda Hernández Stateline Amid recent political rhetoric about rising crime and violence in American cities, a new analysis shows that violent crime has continued to decline this year. Homicides and several other serious offenses, including gun assaults and carjackings, […]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Francine Everett, born Franciene Williamson on April 13, 1915, in Louisburg, North Carolina, was an actress, singer, dancer, and model whose career in Black cinema during the 1930s and 1940s left a lasting mark on […]

By: Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Early Friday morning, a modest but resolute group of Southeast Raleigh and broader Triangle residents gathered outside a home on Barwell Road to protest a new road construction project they say is unfolding without transparency, […]

By: Ms Jheri Worldwide Staff Writer Raleigh City Council member Jonathan Lambert-Melton is embarking on a new chapter in public service, announcing his candidacy for the Wake County Board of Commissioners. With three terms on Raleigh City Council under his […]

NEW YORK (July 25, 2025) – Youth delegates from 38 nations joined distinguished veteran human rights advocates at the United Nations Headquarters to deliver a powerful indictment of global injustices – from state-sanctioned discrimination and human trafficking to nuclear threats […]

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer North Carolina has experienced one of its most extreme years of weather in recent history, beginning with an unseasonably dry winter and spring that sparked a wave of wildfires, and now culminating in record-breaking rainfall, […]

By Richard A. Webster Verite News Louisiana passed a new police accountability law following allegations of civil rights violations against a sheriff’s deputy caught on video dragging a Black woman by her hair and slamming her head into the ground. […]

NC Health News – Most of the 24 million people in Affordable Care Act health plans face a potential one-two punch next year – double-digit premium increases along with a sharp drop in the federal subsidies that most consumers depend […]