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North Carolina’s Latino population grew around 40% between 2010 and 2020. Meanwhile, there’s an under representation of Latino lawmakers at both the state and federal level.

Oceanfront homes are falling into the surf. It happened along the North Carolina coastline twice on the same day last month and raised many questions about just what we’re thinking by building that close to the ocean. We look for answers to why it's happening, what it says about the pace of climate change and what we can do about it.

What to watch with the 118th Congress. Republicans have a slight majority in the House. Democrats have a slight majority in the Senate. Can anything get done? Was the struggle to choose a House speaker a preview of the next two years? We get the forecast.

The homicides of two transgender women in Charlotte and moves in state legislatures around the country viewed as anti-trans have increased the pressures faced by that community. We take a closer look.

Dr. Brooke M. Bauer’s “Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840” is the first book-length study of the role Catawba women played in creating and preserving a cohesive tribal identity over three centuries of colonization and cultural turmoil. Bauer, a citizen of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, weaves ethnohistorical methodologies, family history, cultural context, and the Catawba language together to generate an internal perspective on the Catawbas’ history and heritage in the area now known as the Carolina Piedmont. She will talk about and provide a reading from the book.

To attend the lecture in person, please call (803) 313-7172 or email usclnasp@mailbox.sc.edu to reserve your spot.

To attend via Zoom, register via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcu6vrjgjE9zsjE1x_i6GOxKfi6fHPmkR

There are a handful of key races that could indicate how big (or small) a GOP wave is coming on election night and afterward.

OPEC delayed a committee meeting to assess the impact of the omicron variant. The group needs to decide whether to hit pause on production increases or keep boosting output.

A jury has found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts he faced over the killing of George Floyd. The outcome was far from guaranteed, as convictions of police officers are historically rare.

Amid a sudden surge in demand for domestic travel, especially to beach destinations and national parks, decimated airlines are adding service to new markets as they try to inch back to profitability.

https://charlotte.score.org/event/pricing-profit-and-growth-jan-21 January 21, 10 am to 12 pm How to Price for Profit and Growth Smarter Pricing Guidelines for Small Businesses Fee: $20 Are you one of the 75% of small business owners that: do not have a quick and effective pricing model and/or consistently under-price your work? If so, this Live Online Workshop is for YOU! You will be put on the path to a better understanding of: The difference between mark-ups and your actual profit margins How to calculate and utilize your Cost of Goods Sold in pricing How drive time impacts service delivery businesses while fixed costs impact production oriented businesses Using fixed or variable costs to price for profit This Workshop will engage the business owner to analyze costs to better format various pricing models: Cost Plus Pricing Competition-based Pricing Good / Better/ Best models Margin-based Pricing When to utilize Premium vs. Discount strategies How to calculate a Break-even sales goal

In honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, please join us for the production of “Black History Heroes, Soldiers & Spies,” performed by Bright Star Touring Theatre. In this play, audiences will have the opportunity to experience, celebrate and learn about amazing people throughout Black History. We’ll take the audience westward to see the work of the Buffalo Soldiers and Col. Charles Young, join the Tuskegee Airman as they take flight to help win a battle in World War II, and meet Mary Elizabeth Bower, a spy who worked with the Union during the Civil War. All ages welcome!

Gadgets powered by AI that can complete everyday tasks are coming into the workplace.

Watch the R&B star perform "Breakfast" at her first American appearance in more than three years at NPR Music's SXSW Showcase at Stubb's, then stream the full set. It was well worth the wait.

The American Journalism Project announced today that it is awarding WFAE, Charlotte’s NPR News Source, a grant of more than half a million dollars. The $590,000 will be used to enhance WFAE’s already impressive fundraising results and subsequent investments in local journalism.

The deal secures funding for most of the government while giving lawmakers two weeks to negotiate changes to immigration enforcement. It still needs to pass the House, which is in recess until Monday.

It's been 23 years since Tad Williams wrapped up his epic Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Now, he returns to the land of Osten Ard in a brief gem of a story that sets up a fresh epic to follow.

Randy Henderson's debut deals with sinister magic and family tragedy, but reviewer Jason Heller says it still has plenty of a rare commodity in current fantasy: laughs, laughs, and more laughs.

This weekend, the NPR Books Time Machine is rewinding Scott Lynch's swashbuckling Gentleman Bastard series, a combination fantasy of manners, heist caper and heartfelt buddy comedy. With pirates.

In this new collaborative YA novel, three authors — Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti — each take charge of two characters, teenagers with offbeat and troublesome superpowers.

Alex Marshall (a pseudonym for an established author taking an epic new path) creates a memorable heroine in Cobalt Zosia, a retired general who's drawn back into blood and struggle against her will.