African American Caucus - North Carolina Democratic Party

05/29/2026

Join us on June 1 at 6:30 PM for a timely briefing from the NC Budget & Tax Center on the current tax policy threats to public K-12 funding, including scheduled state income tax cuts and proposed property tax limits, followed by testimonies from people across the state who are living with the consequences of persistent underfunding.

🔗 Register: https://ncbudget.org/hearing/

We are excited to be cohosting this event with the NC Budget & Tax Center along with Communities for the Education of Every Child NC, Education Justice Alliance, North Carolina Association of Educators, Public School Forum of North Carolina, and Public Schools First NC.

05/29/2026

Tickets are now available! This year's dinner is in Raleigh on August 1st.

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

North Carolina Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green congratulates the ...

05/26/2026

Hey NC teachers of color 👋🏿 As summer approaches, make sure to sign up for the Community! We’re building a supportive network, sharing resources, and making schools more equitable.

📲 Join us today: https://www.creed-nc.org/teachingincolor-community

05/26/2026

This week, we honor Dr. Daniel Sanders — a visionary educator who rose from enslavement to become the first Black president of Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith University) in 1891.

His leadership transformed the institution into a powerful hub for Black scholarship, community building, and generational opportunity. His story is a reminder that brilliance isn’t just about achievement — it’s about legacy, courage, and lifting others as you rise.

Black brilliance is not new. It’s continuous. It’s ours.

05/25/2026

Pope Leo XIV made an apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”

Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.”

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/cc_p6f

05/25/2026