>>Wake County School District has not fared well in the public eye when it comes to its treatment of racial minorities. In 2010, the NAACP...[Read More]
Working Families
Articles >>I’m not breaking any news when I say that race relations in this country remain strained, tense even. For all the progress we’ve made, we...[Read More]
>>BY TAZRA MITCHELL Working Tar Heel moms are never off the clock. From laboring at the workplace all day to tucking kids in at night,...[Read More]
>>BY JANET COLM The night of Sept. 5, 1996, just as Hurricane Fran made landfall on Bald Head Island, a young woman living outside of...[Read More]
>>For many of us, politics belong on that list of topics – along with sex and religion – that you don’t talk about in polite...[Read More]
>>How likely is a child from a poor household to become a member of the middle or upper class? If you’ve been listening to the...[Read More]
>>The epitome of black motherhood for me is Claire Huxtable, the beautifully accomplished matriarch of The Cosby Show. Her no-nonsense parenting style reminded me of...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON What do you recall about childhood? I remember the fun of after-school play-dates (though we didn’t call them that then), staying up...[Read More]
>> This article referred to a previous version of this bill, which would have made political activity a misdemeanor. The current bill still includes the...[Read More]
>>BY TIFFANY FRYE What’s the difference a law can make? How about $70,000 in families’ pockets? Autism advocates have new hope that a bill mandating...[Read More]