Naomi Prioleau
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Naomi Prioleau joined WUNC in January 2017 as their Greensboro Bureau reporter.
She moved from Tampa, Florida where she worked at NPR station WUSF 89.7 News covering everything from eight-hour long transportation meetings to Afro-Latinas struggling to identify themselves.
She began her journalism career as a teen reporter at the Kansas City Star. She has been published in The Tampa Tribune, the Florida Courier, the online magazine for the National Association of Black Journalists and the Marshall News Messenger in Texas.
When she’s not reporting, Naomi spends her time cooking delicious vegan food, traveling, working out or reading.
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Ian brought heavy rain and wind to North Carolina over the course of a few days, but the storm destroyed or caused major damage to less than 50 homes in the state. -
The State Bureau of Investigation said it has received a record number of reports of suspected online child exploitation. This is despite many students' return to classrooms and parents' return to offices. -
As the omicron variant continues to climb, these figures are all but certain to increase. -
A Black farming incubator in Edgecombe County wants to help other aspiring Black farmers learn about agriculture. -
A historic Black church in southeastern North Carolina is getting a facelift. -
After years of struggling to meet the financial requirements for the state, the North Carolina Local Government Commission voted to dissolve the town on Tuesday. -
City officials in Raleigh are discussing language changes to zoning laws that could bring back corner stores in some areas and help combat food deserts. -
State and local leaders are offering encouragement and compassion but few answers a day after a North Carolina high school student was shot to death and a suspect arrested. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told a news conference that the shooting at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem was a pain and fear no child or parent should have to confront. -
Susan King, UNC's John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor, served as dean since January of 2012. -
The number of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina has increased by more than 1,000 cases in one day.
