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...
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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...
For more than 40 years the “Carolina Times” was the preeminent black newspaper in North Carolina. It covered the day-to-day happenings in Durham, but its power and reach went far beyond the Triangle. From 1927 to 1971, the paper was...
Several hundred people filled the gym at Smith High School on Sunday afternoon to bear witness on what would be Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’ first appearance in Greensboro for her “We the People” rally. Residents of all...
Dani Ross, Columnist with The Carolinian “You know me. I am in your friendship circle hidden in plain sight. My clothes are still impeccable; bought in the good years when I was still making money. To look at me you would...
I cannot overstate my tremendous admiration for Rev. William Barber. Our connection goes back to North Carolina when I was the President of Bennett College, and he led the state NAACP. His daughter, Sharrelle, graduated from Bennett in the spring before...