Valerie Kinloch played school with an eye toward the future. Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, there was role play and modeling teacher behavior with playmates. Then, graduation to administrator. Along the way, something was brewing: career aspirations. “We would...
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Revolutionary: Descendants of American Revolutionary War patriot gather to commemorate actions of ancestor
By Yasmine Regester, Peacemaker Staff Writer On a sunny day in May 2021, the descendant of a Black patriot and the descendant of a White Revolutionary War leader and politician met at the Nathaniel Greene statue at the Guilford Courthouse...
By Bonitta Best editor@triangletribune.com DURHAM – The W.A.R. Memorial Nurse Aide 1 Training Academy is opening a Licensed Certified Nursing Training School in Durham. The grand opening ceremony is July 8, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 1217 Holloway Street,...
By Makheru Bradley The County News We titled this series Habari Gani, a Kiswahili term we use during Kwanzaa, translated as “What’s New”, or “What is the News?” Our intent is to cover recent events that impact Afrikan people. ***The...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Memorial Day has a deep historical connection to the African American community in the United States. The holiday, which originated as Decoration Day, initially began when formerly enslaved individuals and...
By Dr. Donna Christensen, Debra Fraser-Howze, Shavon Arline-Bradley Although Black women make up 7.7% of the total U.S. population, we have the highest rates of obesity in the country. Sixty percent of Black women live with obesity, which means we...
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...
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...