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Commentary: 5 tips to help North Carolinians save on health care costs

    Commentary: 5 tips to help North Carolinians save on health care costs

By Roger Rodriguez More than 6 million North Carolinians will soon select or switch their health benefits plan during open enrollment, so now is the time to prepare for that

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Victor Johnson Jr. gains high honor

    Victor Johnson Jr. gains high honor

During the school board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 10 longtime local educator Victor Johnson Jr. was awarded the highest honor a civilian in the state can receive, The Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Group backs job listing site for supporting civil rights To the Editor: Without access to employment, people with criminal records are placed on a path to failure and unable to

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Activists hold funeral procession to protest deportation

    Activists hold funeral procession to protest deportation

A mock funeral procession was held in downtown Winston-Salem last week to protest deportation.

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Bishop Barber answers God’s continuing call

    Bishop Barber answers God’s continuing call

Editor’s note: First of two parts. The upcoming N.C. NAACP 74th Annual Convention in Raleigh Oct. 5-7, will be the

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N.C. NAACP convention to feature Jesse Jackson, Roland Martin

    N.C. NAACP convention to feature Jesse Jackson, Roland Martin

When the 74th Annual NC NAACP Convention opens at the Raleigh Convention Center, Thursday, October 5 through Saturday, Oct. 7,

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Guest Editorial: N.C. misses chance for innovative schools assessment

    Guest Editorial: N.C. misses chance for innovative schools assessment

North Carolina will remain tied to testing as its main evaluation tool.

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Poverty rate improves a bit across N.C.

    Poverty rate improves a bit across N.C.

According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau released on Sept. 14, more than 1.5 million of 10,146,788 North

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Rev. Portia Rochelle: Why I should be the next N.C. NAACP president

    Rev. Portia Rochelle: Why I should  be the next N.C. NAACP president

An interview with N.C. NAACP presidential candidate Rev. Portia Rochelle.

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Ignoring race in redrawing districts is big GOP blunder

    Ignoring race in redrawing districts is big GOP blunder

To many legal experts, it’s hard to believe that Republican legislative leaders deliberately redrew new voting maps for the state House and Senate – as ordered by a three-judge federal court – without incorporating race as one of the nine criteria guiding the process. After all, it was the abusive, and according to the US Supreme Court, illegal use of race by Republican mapmakers in drawing the 2011 redistricting plan that earned the ire of the federal court – namely the stacking and packing of black voters into 28 of 170 districts across the state in order to severely weaken their influence in legislative races, thus giving the GOP super-majorities in both houses.

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