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Who gets to be remembered in Chapel Hill?

by Jonathan Michels October 8, 2016December 3, 2020
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Who wins when festival season comes to Durham?

by Sammy Feldblum September 30, 2016September 16, 2020
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A dispatch from the streets of Charlotte

by Danielle Purifoy September 22, 2016October 1, 2020
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By the numbers: Charlotte's changing schools

by Amy Hawn Nelson and Justin T. Lane September 14, 2016November 13, 2023
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An epilogue—for now

by Danielle Purifoy September 8, 2016September 27, 2023
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Community organizing mattered around Mebane—but the struggle isn't over

by Danielle Purifoy August 27, 2016September 27, 2023
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The most influential college you've never heard of, why it folded, and why it matters

by Sammy Feldblum August 24, 2016November 13, 2023
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Finding Black independence in Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 15, 2016September 27, 2023
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How to fight the power company

by Scott Davis August 11, 2016September 27, 2023
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A place called Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 8, 2016September 27, 2023
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We can't trust state governments to protect voting rights—and a federal court just proved why

by Sarah Bufkin August 2, 2016September 16, 2020
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The best damned chicken in the world*

by Ian Williams July 19, 2016September 27, 2023
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Gerrymandering is teaching high schoolers not to trust their government

by Tyler Holbrook June 24, 2016November 13, 2023
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Who's got the blues anymore?

by Sarah Gibson June 2, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Listen: a drug users' union is reimagining public health in the South

by Kat Bawden May 17, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Loving thy neighbor in North Carolina

by Sarah Gibson May 10, 2016October 1, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

It's time to reconsider Carolina barbecue

by Tom Wolf May 5, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

45 years after the Supreme Court forced its schools to integrate, Charlotte continues to debate race, poverty, and education

by Adam Rhew April 20, 2016November 13, 2023
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H.B. 2 isn't just anti-LGBTQ—it's also anti-worker

by Don Davis April 12, 2016September 16, 2020
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Why I believe that we will win

by Jen Ansley April 7, 2016October 1, 2020
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Why one of the nation's breadbaskets is also its unlikeliest food desert

by Rachel Gorman April 5, 2016September 27, 2023
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Updates from the fight against H.B. 2 in North Carolina

by Maura Friedman March 31, 2016September 16, 2020
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North Carolina prisoners are dying in custody

by Danielle Purifoy and Matt Whitt February 25, 2016July 2, 2021
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How H.B. 318 attacks North Carolina's immigrants and working class

by Erik Lampmann October 8, 2015September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The mortician who kept a neighborhood's history alive

by Peter McElroy September 29, 2015November 9, 2020
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Keeping North Carolina's Haw River whole

by Cheney Gardner September 23, 2015September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

By the Numbers: State of the child

by Sarah Bufkin July 22, 2015November 13, 2023
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Constituting North Carolina

by Jedediah Purdy July 9, 2015September 16, 2020
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Hiding in Plain Sight

by David Neal July 8, 2015November 13, 2023
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Old-time Storytelling

by R. Blakeslee Gilpin July 8, 2015September 16, 2020

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