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By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – No drones appeared to be flying over the Fletcher Theater during a Feb. 24 forum introducing Raleigh’s three police chief finalists. While drones and other technologies will grow in policing practices, the finalists’ visions...

By Peter Grear, AI assisted What if Black economic liberation wasn’t just a distant ideal but an ongoing movement with real momentum? Across the globe, a seismic shift is underway, as Black entrepreneurs, leaders, and business networks push back against...

By Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTE POST Charlotte’s still open for business to historically underutilized vendors. The city-backed Charlotte Business Inclusion collaborates with small, minority, and women-owned businesses. In 2023, the city distributed $193 million in contracts with those vendors,...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com DURHAM – Gloria Burton began her music journey as a student. She still considers herself a student – one who without her own words is deemed well-deserving by Pope Francis. Burton, among the brightest shining beacons...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Tanisha Holmes found an irony to the location of a recent Wake County affordable housing program – John Chavis Park. “There was enough land space to be able to go back and rebuild affordable...

By Cash Michaels Contributing writer What was at first thought to be a vital financial lifeline is now seen as another major blunder for beleaguered St. Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh, one that could cost the small private historically black...

In recent years, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs have faced increasing scrutiny, with policy shifts and executive orders leading to the rollback of federally mandated initiatives. These changes raise fundamental questions about the future of supplier diversity, workforce equity,...

By Alex Bass Alex.bass@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Eugene Myrick, president of the Biltmore Hills Neighborhood Association, cut to the chase about the historic community chartered in the early 1960s at a Jan. 29 meeting at John Chavis Park. “It was a...