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.
HBCUs play an outsized role in supporting the economic mobility of African Americans — producing 40% of all Black engineers, 50% of all Black teachers, 70% of all Black doctors and dentists, and 80% of all Black judges.
“Rents are already too high. I will not tolerate any company scheming to block healthy competition among landlords. It raises rents and it’s illegal,” said AG Josh Stein when announcing the lawsuit.
With less than three months until Election Day, organizations across North Carolina are thinking outside the box to get folks fired up to vote.
“These chemicals cause cancer, these chemicals cause a multitude of other diseases. These chemicals damage our environment,” resident Jill Hoffman declared at a heated public hearing.
The Lofts at Elmsley Crossing feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units, and garden-style apartments. Five percent of the units are handicap accessible and another five percent are designed for those with mobility impairments.