(Raeford, NC) — A preschool in North Carolina is accused of telling a four-year-old student her homemade lunch is not healthy enough. The “Carolina Journal” is reporting it happened at WestHoke Elementary School in Raeford. The homemade lunch included a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice. However, the little girl ended up eating chicken […]
The NAACP has recently started a campaign aimed at securing the nomination of a Black judge to a predominantly Black district in North Carolina. Leaders of the state chapter of the NAACP say that there has never been a Black federal judge in the Eastern or Western District court. Roughly half the state’s African-American population […]
President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to move faster with their payments to small businesses contracted by the government today in his jobs speech at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The president said he wanted things to move twice as fast in order to put more money in their pockets quicker so they can […]
The state of North Carolina is working on a plan to compensate thousands of residents who were victims of state-mandated sterilization. State eugenics laws, which began after World War II and lasted up until 1977, sterilized men, women and children as young as 10-years-old in an attempt at better breeding and population control. Social workers […]
NORTH CAROLINA — The former pastor of the North Carolina church New Life Christian Center, Keith Devon Pitts, has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse with the same girl. WCNC News reports that “his nine counts include sex offense of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child.” Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, […]
