Dalton George: My personal affordable housing crisis
A young renter — who is also a member of the Boone Town Council — reflects on his and North Carolina’s affordable housing crisis. By Dalton George Beacon Media It took a long time, and it was more money than I imagined spending, but I’m proud to...Jeremy Markovich: There is no such thing as a Durham accent
People are all up in arms about the North Carolina accents from the latest season of “The White Lotus.” So where exactly did they come from? By Jeremy Markovich Beacon Media Jason Isaacs with Morgana O’Reilly on Season 3 of “The White Lotus.”...Rev. C.J. Brinson: Remembering activist Fannie Lou Hamer can show us the way forward
Greensboro pastor C.J. Brinson says that attacks on marginalized communities should not make anyone despair or tune out. By C.J. Brinson Beacon Media Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights leader, in 1964. Credit: Ken Thompson Collection, Global Ministries, The...
Dalton George: How the Hellbender unites North Carolina’s mountains
This salamander and the federal Act that protects it shows how government can protect the things we all love.
Gwen Frisbie-Fulton: It’s been time for Southern unions
Amazon worker’s efforts in Garner, N.C., will help workers across the entire state and South.