Standing in the government cheese line with my grandmother as a six-year-old
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Grandmother reared me into a food justice activist as she received government assistance.
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Green From Below
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Before there is an actionable policy that will assist life forms to thrive, there must be a belief system, a metaphor, a way of seeing.
Climate Change
Homespun: The Small Museum of Folk Art
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Jeremy George takes us on a tour of Pittsboro’s Small Museum of Folk Art, dedicated to local and Southern makers and outsider artists. Full of color, improvisation, and life, the museum is an homage to the urgent need of everyday folks to create.
North Carolina
Banking on Black Women: Inside Maggie Walker’s Financial Empire
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Decades before The New Deal, Richmonder Maggie Walker founded the first and only bank managed by and tailored to Black women. It was so successful that it survived the Great Depression.
Blackness
Organizers shut down a jail for 7 hours to demand an end to the cash bail system
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Progressive officials in Durham, North Carolina have promised bold reforms but haven’t delivered.