Councilwoman Mary Black By Cash Michaels – New safeguards are being put in place after a first-term African American Raleigh City Council member became the target of hateful, racist slurs …
Nelda Holder Photo: Tim Barnwell Legislative News by Nelda Holder – The news network in North Carolina—including such “personal news” channels as the ubiquitous Facebook, as well as plain old…
NC Representative Lindsey Prather In early May, NC Representative Lindsey Prather (D-Buncombe) responded to the Legislature’s passage of an increase in the state’s private school voucher program of up to…
Women still cannot get fair treatment when it comes to employment and earnings. By Charlene Crowell – Never-married Black women have eight cents ($0.08) in wealth for every dollar held…
The next meeting of the Community Reparations Commission is scheduled for Monday, May 13, 2024, from 6-8 p.m. at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center Banquet Hall, 87 Haywood Street in downtown…
Bessie Stringfield blazed a path across America with her fearless motorcycle riding. Bessie Stringfield was born around 1911 in Edenton, North Carolina. At the age of 16, Stringfield taught herself…
A new film by Minhal Baig tells the story of two boys coming of age in Cabrini-Green. Set against the backdrop of a troubled time and place, We Grown Now…
Princeville, North Carolina sits atop wet, swampy land along the Tar River. In the 1800s, the land was disregarded and deemed uninhabitable by white people. But after the Civil War,…
Author & Filmmaker Natalie Baszile UNC Asheville and the Wilma Dykeman Legacy are excited to announce Natalie Baszile as the next Wilma Dykeman Writer-in-Residence in Spring 2025. Baszile is the…
2024 audit recognizes the damage caused by public and private systemic racism. Buncombe County and the City of Asheville governments’ reparation resolutions aspire to cease the perpetuation of institutional processes…
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