North Carolina

Everyone remembers those twins from Rock Hill, S.C., who gave birth on the same day, right? Zaakira Mitchell gave birth to a healthy boy and…

Everyone remembers those twins from Rock Hill, N.C., who gave birth on the same day, right? Zaakira Mitchell gave birth to a healthy boy and…

A North Carolina school district forced a principal into retirement and issued an apology after 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett was suspended for calling his teacher “cute.” SEE ALSO: Hacker Steals A Half Million From Rich White Lady Alec Baldwin’s PERFECT Tracey Morgan Impression

A ten-year-old North Carolina girl took her own life in her bedroom after allegedly being bullied at school, local authorities say. Her mother, Samantha West, found 10-year-old  Jasmine McClain hanging with a belt around her neck in their home. Chadbourn Police Chief Steven Shaw ruled the death a suicide but his investigation lead him to […]

The NAACP has recently started a campaign aimed at securing the nomination of a Black judge to a predominantly Black district in North Carolina. Leaders of the state chapter of the NAACP say that there has never been a Black federal judge in the Eastern or Western District court.  Roughly half the state’s African-American population […]

President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to move faster with their payments to small businesses contracted by the government today in his jobs speech at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The president said he wanted things to move twice as fast in order to put more money in their pockets quicker so they can […]

The state of North Carolina is working on a plan to compensate thousands of residents who were victims of state-mandated sterilization. State eugenics laws, which began after World War II and lasted up until 1977, sterilized men, women and children as young as 10-years-old in an attempt at better breeding and population control. Social workers […]

NORTH CAROLINA — The former pastor of the North Carolina church New Life Christian Center, Keith Devon Pitts, has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse with the same girl. WCNC News reports that “his nine counts include sex offense of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child.” Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]

DURHAM, N.C. – Crystal Mangum, the Durham woman known for falsely accusing three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006, is accused of stabbing her boyfriend early Sunday. Mangum, 32, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. She is being held without bond. Investigators believe that […]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina  — There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, […]