Es esencial que los votantes se mantengan informados sobre las plataformas de los candidatos y los temas que afectan a sus comunidades. Las elecciones locales no reciben la misma atención que las elecciones estatales o federales, pero son igualmente vitales para el bienestar de los residentes.
Democratic nominee Dr. Lorenza Wilkins has lived in Nash County for 20+ years and has served youth, small business owners and vulnerable communities in the state through a variety of organizations.
In 2008, Anton Moore founded DJs at the Polls in Philadelphia. He started this nonpartisan organization on the belief that voting and democracy are something to be celebrated and that DJs playing at polling places can increase voter turnout.
For many university students, this election might be their first time at the polls. The question is: where do you vote? Should you head home, or change your voter registration to your college town? We’re here to break it down for you.
Además, la presencia de ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza en las operaciones de ayuda ha generado gran preocupación. Muchos latines temen que, al buscar asistencia, puedan ser detenidos o deportados, lo que les impide acceder a la ayuda que necesitan.
Hurricane Helene will go down in history books for destroying much of Western North Carolina. This part of our state will never be the same. And they greatly need our help.
“The rhetoric of Mark Robinson is beyond dangerous,” Martin Luther King III said in Rocky Mount. “…it’s very difficult to understand how North Carolina allowed this kind of leadership to emerge because he is the Lt. Governor.”
On Oct. 1 at 5:30 p.m., Scuppernong Books is hosting a town hall where they have invited leaders, clients of the Interactive Resource Center and anyone else who lives or works downtown that wants to talk about solutions to homelessness.
In addition to more than 400,000 school supply items, WakeEd raised over $70,000 in monetary donations, including a $20,000 challenge match from the 4 Others Foundation.
In 2022, 5,883 babies were born in Guilford County. Out of those babies born, 52 did not celebrate their first birthday. And more than half of those babies were African American from all socioeconomic levels.