The Voice of the Black Community
State & National
| A redistricting update after the final round of filings |
| Monday, October 14, 2019 |
| It’s a strikingly familiar tale in North Carolina: voters are waiting with bated breath for a court to either approve legislatively-drawn remedial House and Senate maps or to assign the job to a neutral third-party to correct unconstitutional gerrymandering issues. Republicans drew the 2017 legislative maps to entrench themselves in political power |
| Impeachment divides NC congressional delegation along party lines |
| Thursday, October 10, 2019 |
| U.S. House committee members are hearing the first testimony in closed-door hearings into the scandal over President Donald Trump’s statements earlier this year to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. While those committee hearings are closed to the public, members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation are sounding off on the |
| NAACP acknowledges ‘sexual impropriety’ complaint from NC |
| Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
| RALEIGH — The national NAACP said Thursday that it’s looking into a complaint about sexual harassment within the North Carolina chapter of the civil rights group. A spokesman said in an email that the Baltimore-based organization began an internal disciplinary process after it received a formal complaint “alleging sexual |
