DURHAM — An increase in the city’s police budget was approved at the June 15 Durham City Council meeting, allocating a total of $70 million to the DPD, about 14% of the city’s $503 million […]
Last week, I came across several major news reports that have released early data regarding the racial disparities in health and socioeconomic class that the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing. Actually, “exacerbate” is probably a more […]
RALEIGH — With a win in a Republican lieutenant governor primary packed full of experienced, well-known politicians, Mark Robinson, an African American gun rights advocate from Greensboro, was likely the biggest news coming out of […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For James Felder, the question of which presidential candidate to support in the South Carolina primary has never been terribly complicated. The 80-year-old civil rights activist has always backed Joe Biden, appreciative […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For I.S. Leevy Johnson, the Democrats’ search for a challenger to take on President Donald Trump is personal. “There is what I call an ‘ABT mood’ in the black community: Anybody but […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (NC DMVA) will conduct the Second African American Veteran Lineage Day Ceremony in Raleigh on Feb. 13. A documentary film will be produced by […]
Jews have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes in economics, 30% of those in medicine, 25% in physics, 20% in chemistry, 15% in literature and 10% of the Nobel Peace Prizes. Since the beginning […]
You might be scratching your head and asking: “When did the GOP ever have the African American vote to begin with?” The Republican Party has been joined at the hip of African American freedom since […]
If you’re the only minority, woman, American, person from ________ country, or ______ in your program, it can be tough at times. It also doesn’t necessarily get easier as you progress through your career, as […]
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