About Us
“We built this to tell our own stories.”
Drake Magazine was founded in 2026 to celebrate Black culture, creativity, and community across North Carolina and beyond. We spotlight the people, businesses, artists, athletes, and leaders making an impact — while delivering authentic stories on fashion, music, business, sports, education, and culture.
More than a magazine, Drake Magazine is a platform that informs, inspires, and empowers. Every issue is made with intention, for a readership that has too often been written about rather than written for.
From Us. About Us. For Us.
Rooted in Raleigh.
Made for North Carolina.
We started in Raleigh because the stories around us were being told late, told thin, or not told at all. Drake Magazine covers Black North Carolina the way it actually moves: the chef who sells out by two, the producer building a catalog out of a spare bedroom, the organizer who knows every council member by name, the HBCU homecoming that runs the whole city for a week.
We publish statewide — Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, Asheville, Wilmington, the Triangle, the Triad, the Coast and the Mountains — in print four times a year and online every week.
What We Cover
- 01Local news and community reporting rooted in the neighborhoods we live in.
- 02Music, style, food and nightlife led by NC creatives.
- 03A statewide directory of Black-owned businesses worth your money.
- 04Culture and history — HBCUs, archives, art and the people preserving both.
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