The Struggle for Affordable Housing By Greg Childress North Carolina’s community land trusts are working to raise the profile of their housing preservation model, which its members see as a vital tool in the struggle…
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Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI By Ella Fassler Earlier this year in San Antonio, Texas, an eight-year-old delivered a fiery, impassioned speech to the office of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Introducing herself as…
By Jeff Bryant “It’s just gotten worse,” Catherine Gilmore said when I asked her how her community was faring since we last spoke. In May 2021, I interviewed Gilmore, the community school coordinator at Gibsonton…
By Jacob Flowers One afternoon a few weeks ago, I joined AFSC North Carolina staff and volunteers at the Guilford County courthouse to monitor eviction proceedings. Our staff members CC Crawford and Devyn Rascoe had…
By Andrew Sartain We’ve all heard the rumors of foreign interests buying up millions of acres of American farmland. In fact, over 45 million acres of U.S. farmland—nearly the size of half of California—are now…
By Durham Dispatch On May 7, around 150 people gathered at Lyon Park Community Center to launch Durham Rising, an alliance of labor unions and progressive organizations pushing for an improved relationship between Duke University,…
Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon, with additional reporting by Cassandra Garibay When Hurricane Helene plowed over the Southeast last September, it caused more…
By José Mujica My generation made a naive error. We believed that social change was only a matter of challenging modes of production and distribution in society. We did not understand the immense role of…
By R. Allen Wight El Futuro Es Nuestro, or “It’s Our Future (IOF),” organizes H2-A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina and advocates on their behalf. The organization initially materialized out of grassroots demands for…
By Michael Hewlett Mina Ezikpe went to a morning meeting of Central Piedmont Community College’s board of trustees on March 12 with a friend and part-time student, Eboni Exceus, to learn more about a plan…