When Claudia Shivers thinks of a great cup of coffee, she imagines the home kitchen of her grandmother, Queen Esther. The air would be warm from the heat of the oven and she can almost smell her grandmother’s fresh-baked blackberry cobbler. Shivers, 49, is a founder of Queen Coffee Bean, a coffee company in High Point, North Carolina. […]

The stigma that comes with having been in prison is difficult to overcome because it is both internal and external. My daily mantra reminds me that I am worthy and deserving of all good things, especially a way to feed myself and my family that allows us choices and freedom. I remind myself that just […]

 HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. (WTVD) — Roughly 18,000 people are released from North Carolina prison every year and come home to face more barriers from housing to unemployment. Inmates to Entrepreneurs, a non-profit founded in Holly Springs, is working to help formerly incarcerated individuals start their businesses. According to a report from the US Chamber […]

Since 2017, April is observed as Second Chance Month in the United States. This year is no different. President Biden released his proclamation on March 29 and announced, “During Second Chance Month, we recommit to building a criminal justice system that lives up to those ideals so that people returning to their communities from jail […]

Lawrence Carpenter says he grew up poor and dreaming of a better life. By age 12, he was following the only example he saw in his North Carolina neighborhood of how to achieve this dream: selling drugs. By age 17, he was incarcerated. After serving six years in prison, he was back on the streets […]

LiveSwitch, a startup provider of live, interactive video application technology that was born in Canada but now has a second HQ in Raleigh, has a new chief executive at the helm. Seasoned Triangle entrepreneur Brian Hamilton became the company’s new CEO this month after making a significant investment in the startup known previously as Frozen […]

INDIANAPOLIS — His first race suit was tiny, barely big enough to fit a doll. It was red, white and gold, a replica suit made for 2-month-old Davey Hamilton Jr. to match the one his dad was wearing as he ran the Indianapolis 500 that year. Hamilton Jr. still has that suit from 1997, when his dad […]

Johnson & Wales University Hosts Hamilton and Free Enterprise While Production Films in Charlotte, N.C. November 15, 2021 Jessica Baryla CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is hosting Brian Hamilton and Free Enterprise for a special community event at the Hance Auditorium on the JWU campus on Tuesday, November 16 at 5:30 p.m. […]