By Bonitta Best editor@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – Southeast Raleigh is getting some much-needed income-restricted family apartments, but it will be awhile before residents can move in. Affordable housing developer DHIC will soon break ground on its Fisher Grove project, a 166-apartment...
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The vulnerability experienced by Black and Brown individuals in America is woven into a complex tapestry of historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped their realities for centuries. From the earliest days of colonization and slavery, discriminatory policies and...
By Kylie Marsh Kylie.marsh@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – A planned merger between WakeMed and Atrium Health has Raleigh residents concerned. A town hall at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church Monday evening drew patients, county commissioners and WakeMed employees who raised numerous concerns about...
Nikya Hightower and Herbert L. White The Charlotte Post As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence, Black Charlotteans are reflecting on what the experience looks like for them. They are both proud and disappointed. Tamika Williams,...
Herbert L. White The Charlotte Post Lamar Richardson’s bet on himself earned him another slice of theater history. Richardson, an Independence High School alumnus, is the youngest Black lead producer to earn a Tony Award in a top production category...
By Kylie Marsh Kylie.marsh@triangletribune.com Rhonda Gee is a master teacher at KIPP Durham, a charter school that teaches kindergartners through eighth grade. Gee’s daughter, Daniela, attends KIPP, and is now in sixth grade. “I began to notice my own daughter’s...
Herbert L. White The Charlotte Post Johnson C. Smith University is on probation for another year as its accreditor measures the school’s progress in resolving fiscal responsibility concerns. The Atlanta-based Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges opted...
By Bonitta Best editor@triangletribune.com RALEIGH – On July 1, Russian climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus scaled the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner about the power of love and peace. On Facebook, a former St. Augustine’s University...
Herbert L. White The Charlotte Post Eddie Ray, a pioneering music executive, songwriter, and the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame’s first executive director, died June 21 at age 99. Mr. Ray, who was born on December 21, 1926, in...
Roger Johnson, The Daily Drum For generations, the story of America has been told as one of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. Yet woven into that history is another story—one of racial terror, injustice, and violence that claimed thousands of Black...