Tia Mitchell

Tia Mitchell

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is an NC freelance journalist based in Morrisville. She graduated from North Carolina Central University in 2017 with her bachelor's in Mass Communications. Outside of journalism, Tia is a program coordinator in the academic research field and likes to write screenplays in her spare time.

Culture Caroline Lattimore, a Durham member of the historically Black Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, joined many of her sisters celebrating Vice President Kamala Harris' inauguration Wednesday. (Image via Lattimore)
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Tia Mitchell Tia Mitchell January 21, 2021 3:56 pm EST

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, right, speaks while state Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley listens at an Executive Mansion news conference in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Cooper and Kinsley announced that North Carolina would launch Medicaid expansion coverage on Dec. 1. Expansion will be able to start because Cooper said he'll let a state budget bill sent by the General Assembly last week to his desk become law without his signature. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson) Healthcare How Biden’s American Rescue Plan helped NC finally expand Medicaid
In this 2017 file photo, young hogs owned by Smithfield Foods gather around a water source. The Chinese-owned company, which is one of the largest employers in Sampson County, NC, has been the subject of multiple "hog nuisance" lawsuits because the smells, the noise, and health concerns. But hogs are just one of the environmental concerns in this rural NC county. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Agriculture ‘You can’t win for losing’: Inside Sampson County, NC’s environmental nightmare
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