Around one million North Carolina students have a day off today as their teachers stage a day long strike in protest of working conditions and pay.  Teachers from at least 42 school districts in our state are joining together to demand higher pay and more money for education. As many as 15,000 teachers are expected […]

North Carolina NAACP leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II to step down from his post to lead a new moral movement modeled after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign.

A Black man was shot and killed in Raleigh, North Carolina Monday by city police officers after they chased the alleged drug suspect. Akiel Denkins, 24, was unarmed according to his mother and witness statements, the Huffington Post reports.

Local auditions for the opportunity to perform on the 2014 Women’s Empowerment Outside Sound Stage will take place on Saturday March 8th from 9:30am to…

The effort to  publicize the state legislature assault on the poor the middle class and children continues with Moral Monday on Monday. This week the…

The Light 103.9FM presents “Unity in the Community Day”, an exciting two phase event that brings people together from all over the Triangle and surrounding…

What started off as a normal day would turn into something completely different not only for me but the entire Shaw family on April 16. My day started with a meeting with our sorority graduate chapter at the graduate house only minutes from school. What I thought would be a rather long meeting, turned into […]