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Lessons from rural communities in the crusade to save the USPS

by Alicia Carter & Haley France September 8, 2020November 21, 2023
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Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020
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Asheville's 'historic' reparations resolution is not what it seems

by David Forbes July 24, 2020November 12, 2020
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Exposed: UNC pledged neo-confederates $2.5 mil for monument

by L’Erin Jensen July 21, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

This North Carolina law lets police keep racism and abuse under wraps

by Antoinette Kerr July 7, 2020September 16, 2020
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(Past) Virtual event—Breathing While Black: Fighting environmental racism in the South

by Scalawag Team June 18, 2020October 9, 2020
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Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020
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Uncontrolled Images: Documenting Raleigh's Black Revolt

by Jade Wilson June 10, 2020October 1, 2020
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Black businesses disrupt unhealthy food system in Southeast Raleigh

by Courtney Napier June 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle C. May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Triangle's first Black-owned vegan restaurant still doing business during COVID-19

by Giulia Heyward May 15, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

North Carolina officials are ignoring a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women

by Antoinette Kerr May 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Black farmers build their own food scene in Forsyth County, NC

by Tina Vasquez April 24, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Op-ed: Stay-at-home policy isn't effective without economic security and education

by Quran Karriem, Quisha Mallette, & Lewis Wallace March 27, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

NC workers making sub-minimum wage could get a boost on Super Tuesday

by Anna Simonton March 3, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

North Carolina's hog industry could turn a corner—for better or worse

by Ryke Longest February 28, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020September 27, 2023
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Life in the woods: North Carolina's growing homeless tent camps are an open secret

by Michael Cooper November 6, 2019November 14, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How grassroots power defeated a racist gerrymander in Asheville

by David Forbes November 4, 2019September 16, 2020
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Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019November 13, 2023
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A Black kingdom in postbellum Appalachia

by Danielle Dulken September 9, 2019October 1, 2020
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The cruel tactic ICE is using to ramp up deportations

by Sammy Hanf August 19, 2019September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In Photos: Black August in the Park

by Dare Kumolu-Johnson and Danielle Purifoy August 19, 2019October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Asheville, delay is denial

by David Forbes August 5, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

North Carolina could finally expand medicaid

by Amanda Abrams July 22, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Why North Carolina keeps many parole-eligible prisoners behind bars

by Lyle C. May July 8, 2019October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Listen: Going home for my small town's first LGBTQ pride

by Monique LaBorde July 1, 2019October 1, 2020
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A Story of Us: In Conversation with Artists Monét Noelle Marshall and Saba Taj

by Zaina Alsous July 1, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Homespun: The Small Museum of Folk Art

by Jeremy James George June 17, 2019September 16, 2020
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Organizers shut down a jail for 7 hours to demand an end to the cash bail system

by Sammy Hanf June 17, 2019September 16, 2020

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