'Bridge to the Future' offers Hillside students advice, leadership

The cafeteria at Hillside High School buzzed as members of the Gamma Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated circled the room and discussed how life would be after Hillside students received their high school diplomas.

The war on voters continues in NC

Four NC Republican Senators introduced three bills that may gut voting rights in the state.

The South still toils. Down here, where the sun beats hard and the tea drinks sweet, a shameful, oppressive voter disenfranchisement history will not die. This month, Republican senators introduced state legislation that threatens to undermine student and minority voting rights in North Carolina.

Climate Wars’ author at Regulator

Journalist discusses military’s interst in climate change

For the past seven years, freelance journalist Gwynne Dyer has been trying to understand the military's new interest in climate change. From the interviews he conducted with scientist and government officials Dyer came to an alarming conclusion: the lack of food production caused by the earths rising temperatures will create massive death and incredible chaos.

NAACP takes Wake to feds

Claiming that the resegregation of Wake County public schools has already begun, the state NAACP has launched a far-reaching legal effort to stop the transformation of North Carolina's largest school district.

SAT scores in state stay flat

North Carolina students' performance on the SAT college entrance exam remained nearly flat, with the state's average combined score on the critical reading and math sections creeping up two points over last year to 1008.

Did Obama tweet you?

Speaker explores how social networking is changing the world

New media expert, Rahaf Harfoush, a strategist with President Obama's presidential campaign, recently spoke about her experience with social media during the presidential campaign and how it is changing the way people and organizations communicate and do business with one another.

Teacher may lose job after derogatory comments about her students on Facebook

A middle-school teacher in Wake County, N.C., may be fired after she and her friends made caustic remarks on a Facebook page about her students, the South and Christianity.

Two can't stop phoning while driving

LIKE FATHER, Like Daughter -- only more so. Tyler Strandberg of Rocky Mount has a hard time getting her mind off her BlackBerry when she drives. She has crashed three cars in the past three years.