When anti-Blackness comes to town
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People still live in the place that was Soul City. The sign is still there, but the promises are gone.
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From Georgia to North Korea, communities are fighting nuclear industries
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While Trump was summiting with Kim Jong-Un, nuclear-impacted communities convened on their own terms.
Nuclear Power
‘If free people are not allowed to have unions, how are prisoners to have unions?’: Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union
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In this three-part series we share excerpts from interviews Jonathan Michels conducted with members of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, an often overlooked part of Southern labor history. This week we hear from Robbie Purner.
Labor movement
Three Poems by Kay Billie Oakes
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and may their blade be the instrument of civility/ before the grass and its babyfolk
get too big for their britches./ Oh, but God help it if there ain’t no sugar for taste.
Poetry
A lot is at stake in the North Carolina midterms
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The state’s Republican supermajority––which has wrought havoc on democracy, the environment, and civil rights––could come to an end. But these ballot initiatives could stand in the way of a progressive recovery.