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Our Staff

Editors-in-chief: Mesa Jones and Chris Frazier

Sports Editor: Allexus Killian

News Editor: De’Zaria Lucas

Reporter-at-Large: Ronni Butts

Staff reporters:

  • K’mari Peede
  • Daijah Boyd
  • Isaiah Pacheco
  • Johnathon Backstrom
  • Kaya Hammond
  • Zora Pattillo
  • Jayden Goldson

Advisor: Dr. Bruce dePyssler

Media Practicum Students


About us

The Campus Echo is the official student newspaper of North Carolina Central University. NCCU, a historically-black college/university (HBCU), is one of the 16 constituent member schools of the University of North Carolina System. It has been targeted as a “growth institution” by UNC. NCCU, with its 8,250 students, is located in the heart of Durham just minutes from the Research Triangle Park, a booming technology and biotechnology center.

If you decide to advertise with us,  your ad will be seen in one of the nation’s very best black college student newspapers. The Campus Echo is one of the most highly recognized HBCU student newspapers in the nation.

In the last 15 years, the print and online editions have won over 250 national and regional awards from the Black College Communication Association (BCCA), the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Associated Collegiate Press and the North Carolina College Media Association.

These honors include the national Mark of Excellence Award for Best Online Student Newspaper and numerous general excellence awards from the BCCA and the SPJ. We are eager to serve your advertising needs and to enroll your support of our student newspaper.

Who you will reach with our online/mobility-enhanced web edition:

  • our readers are the 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in NCCU and the approximately 1,000 full-time faculty and staff of the institution, plus thousands of NCCU alumni
  • average age of NCCU full- and part-time students is 24 years
  • the majority of students are North Carolinians, but 37 states are represented in the student body
  • 83% of the students are African-American; 14% are white
  • 65% of the students are female

NCCU is renowned for educating African-American professionals and community leaders. The university has programs in biotechnology, education, criminal justice, nursing, health education, law and public administration.

Additionally, NCCU is home to the Institute for the Study of Minority Issues and the new Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, a program partnered with the National Institutes of Health and companies like Glaxo Wellcome and Eli Lilly to address the health needs of minority groups.

4 Comments

  1. Hello,
    I’m writing with critically important news for all. In March 2023, billionaire Peter Thiel started a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank. I was suspicious, and fell into a rabbit hole of over 1,500 hours of research.
    In a nutshell, cryptocurrency is history’s largest Ponzi scheme, which will soon collapse the world economy. This is because we are victims of a “secret kleptocracy:” our government has been taken over by financial criminals whose only goal is to bleed the populace dry.
    I’ve put together a booklet here with much more information: https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/dipshit-secrets-of-our-rotten-world

  2. To me, as an alumna Eagle, the statistics of Eagles registered and planning to vote are pretty impressive! Also I think the whole staff  is doing an extremely good job with the Echo this semester.. I was an English major as an undergraduate, although not with a specialization in journalism.
    Michelle Obama’s speech in Michigan was I think the best I’ve ever watched, and I am 61. I suppose it might appeal to drama students   because of its delivery but to all  of us who work with language. The Republicans were wise enough not to attack her, which would have made the speech go viral, but I imagine it is still circulating. It is a very poignant commentary on all women’s health, women of all ages, and not JUST about the right to choose.
     The economy is an important issue, sure. Harris has done a lot of good work as VP in NC with small businesses. And, as they say, God helps those who help themselves, although prayer and meditation are important. I cannot conceive of anyone listening to the first joke at the Trump rally Sunday about how Latinos have sex and not voting against him. Remember the REASONS Black men were lynched, the caricature of their sexuality in white racist discourse. Sarah Melissa Packard

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