Spring is here, and with it comes more than just pop-up showers and sunshine. Fresh produce may first come to mind, but spring bites can also mean swapping out ingredients like regular pasta for a solution such as pearl couscous. If you're looking to complement greens, veggies, fish or meats with light yet filling flavor, consider Success Boil-in-Bag Pearl

But Where’s Home? A Novella and Stories By Toni Ann Johnson Screen Door Press, $24.95 HC It's 1963 in the small town of Monroe, New York. The Arringtons, a Black family, buy a house in a picturesque, all-white neighborhood. Some residents are welcoming, but many react to Dr. Philip Arrington, his wife Velma, and their daughters Livia and Maddie by

Spirit Morgan is headed back to Eugene, Oregon, to compete in the high jump. LEXINGTON, Ky – A month after Allen Johnson became director of track and field at North Carolina A&T, a lady approached him as he entered Truist Stadium during the AAU Track and Field Nationals in summer 2022. She told him her daughter would attend A&T and asked

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority has signed a new partnership agreement with online nonprofit Western Governors University. As part of the agreement, Sigma Gamma Rho members can apply for the WGU Sigma Gamma Rho Scholarship and the WGU Service & Leadership Scholarship, both valued up to $5,000, disbursed in credit of $1,250 per term for up to four terms. WGU

RALEIGH - Southeast Raleigh Promise last week announced the recipients of the inaugural Rock Quarry Road Corridor Small Business Alliance Promise in Action Grant, an initiative designed to strengthen and grow small businesses in the community. Powered by a $25,000 investment from the Duke Energy Foundation, the micro-grant initiative represents a

Across Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and communities throughout North Carolina are talented professionals, entrepreneurs, ministry leaders, educators, and community advocates whose knowledge could change lives. Yet many of them remain invisible. Not because they lack expertise. Not because they lack passion. But because they have never learned how to

For many U.S. parents, the approach of summer brings stress and worry: Will they be able to find and afford the kinds of summer opportunities they want for their kids? A new study from the Afterschool Alliance, “The Summer Struggle,” finds that about half of the 24.6 million young people nationwide whose parents want summer programs for them

Screen unwanted views, buffer traffic and other noise, create privacy and add year-round beauty to the landscape with evergreens. Combine them with deciduous trees and shrubs, perennials and annuals for multiple seasons of beauty. Plus, enjoy the seasonal changes as well as visiting pollinators and songbirds. Use taller evergreens as a backdrop for