Back in January, then 50-year-old David Steven Bell was seen on video punching a young Black girl outside a mall in North Carolina. Apparently he won’t be seeing any jail time for that violent crime. Bell, standing 6-foot-5 and weighing 250 pounds, was arrested after the assault on an 11-year-old girl in Asheville went viral. He […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judicial panel ruled Thursday that a mentally ill man who wore a Superman-like cape in police interviews and compared himself to Dracula did not kill a North Carolina college student in a dorm 40 years ago. Three judges declared James Blackmon, 66, innocent in the death of Helena Payton, who […]
For a few minutes this morning I wanna demonstrate the power of local elections. On Tuesday a dangerous vote took place in the North Carolina where the state legislature passed House Bill 370. And it’s doing something we see happening all over the country. In North Carolina, at least 7 different elected sheriffs have said […]
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A tennis club for African American players that hosted International Tennis Hall of Famers Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe is being honored with a historic marker. The marker will be dedicated Thursday at the site where the Algonquin Tennis Club was created in 1922 by the American Tennis Association, which was […]
Aliyah Terry, 35, had a mission. She wanted to communicate to other women how necessary it was to have high self-esteem. She and her co-authors wrote a book “The Q.U.E.E.N. Experience: A Guide To Playing Your Royal Position” that extolled the virtues of living your life by biblical principles. Unfortunately, Terry instead became another cautionary […]
Season Bennett, a popular barbershop owner from North Carolina, says she was so inspired by the billionaire Robert F. Smith generous gift to the 2019 graduating class of Morehouse — that she was moved to raise thousands to help high schoolers in her area. Bennett has reportedly raised $4500 to clear the debts of seniors at East […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When North Carolina drew its most recent political maps, state leaders split a historically black university in Greensboro into two congressional districts that critics say diluted the voting power of African Americans on campus. Lawmakers defended it as partisan gerrymandering — a tactic that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Thursday. […]
An outdoor recreation center in North Carolina is facing criticism after it put in place a ban on dreadlocks and weaves. People on social media have called the center out and called the rules racist and discriminatory. A Facebook user posted a photograph of the pool rules for the Outdoor Recreation Center in Wendell on […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, nearly two days after he slipped away from the hospital where he was treated for a head wound. His capture came after a manhunt and finger-pointing about who was to blame for […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Duke star Zion Williamson is suing to terminate his contract with a sports marketing company, saying the agency violated the state’s sports agent law. A lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Greensboro says the star player should be allowed to void his contract with Florida-based Prime Sports Marketing […]
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings. Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, entered the plea to three counts of first-degree murder in a Durham courtroom packed with dozens of the victims’ family and friends. It came two months after […]
Nina Simone’s childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina will be restored this spring courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The property was deemed a national treasure last year, and now, blavity.com reports that a group of New York-based artist-owners, Adam Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, Ellen Gallagher and Julie Mehretu, will spearhead the project. “We are committed to […]
