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By Freda Freeman CORRESPONDENT RALEIGH – Community leaders in education, criminal justice, government, social advocacy, medicine, entrepreneurship, cultural arts, public service, and leadership were honored for their contributions at the fourth annual Image Awards at the John Chavis Community Center....

By Bonitta Best editor@triangletribune.com DURHAM – Christopher Emdin, author of the New York Times bestseller, “For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood,” couldn’t have said it better. There are three types of people, Emdin said at an entrepreneurship forum:...

Herbert L. White THE CHARLOTTE POST The 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church was intensely personal to Malcolm Graham. Among the nine people killed at the historic Black church in Charleston, S.C., was his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd,...

It was February 14. But what nearly 400 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees got that day were not Valentines. They were pink slips. The firings touched critical roles in EPA offices across the country, including dozens of scientists at the agency’s...

By Cash Michaels Contributing writer Her ballads were haunting. Her voice soothing. And her artistry, legendary. Songstress Roberta Flack, a native of Black Mountain, NC,  died Monday surrounded by family. She suffered a stroke in 2016, then two years later...

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...