By Cash Michaels An analysis Last week, the North Carolina political press was all abuzz over a revealing incident where during a state House floor debate over public funding for private school vouchers, Republican Rep. Jeff McNeely of Iredell County...
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RALEIGH, N.C. To commemorate Juneteenth, numerous N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources sites across the state will feature events and tours throughout the month of June. Juneteenth (short for June Nineteenth ) marks the day in 1865 when...
By Dr. Barbara Reynolds (TriceEdneyWire.com) – More than 1,000 scientists, engineers, many of them leaders in the Big Tech industry, recently signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of the newest artificial intelligence (AI) systems, suggesting...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The National Urban League s 2023 State of Black America report concluded that an uptick in police brutality, specifically against Black Americans, is no coincidence. Across the nation, white supremacist...
By Cash Michaels Contributing writer It won t be long before, once again, Gov. Cooper will have a ratified bill against teaching the racial history of African Americans and other people of color on his desk to sign, as happened...
Expulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers Reflects Raw Racism, White Fear of Black Progress
By Barrington M. Salmon Gloria Johnson Justin Pearson Justin Jones The Tennessee Senate expelled lawmakers Justin Pearson and Justin Jones with Gloria Johnson at left. (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Students of American history would not be surprised by the action engineered last...
After Veteran’s Administration Rejected Payment for His Cancer Treatment, Black Veteran Credits HBCU for Saving His Life
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The benefits of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are well known by those who enroll in them, support them or otherwise associate with them. Among the top five benefits, according to the United...
By Cash Michaels Contributing writer Now that the Republicans in the U.S. House have won a slim majority, and with it, House leadership, beyond governing for all Americans, North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC-12) has one challenge for newly-minted Speaker...
When Deborah Dicks Maxwell, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, won her controversial election over incumbent President Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman in October 2021, she subsequently told The Raleigh News and Observer, “ The power of the...
200+ Faith Leaders Issue Letter to President Biden to Establish Reparations Commission by Executive Order
The National Council of Churches USA (NCC), Faith for Black Lives, and more than 200 faith leaders from across the country issued a letter today to President Joseph Biden to establish a commission to study reparations by executive order on...