Jitomate #4 – The plant is thriving in acidic soil. Partial shade. No signs of blight or anthracnose. The dragonfly zoomed past her in defeat and on to the next potential blight carrier. Privacy ...
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Since the Western world learned of Vodou, it has been used to perpetuate racist tropes. This is the sordid history Black ...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools are in the midst of a contentious student assignment process: One that gets at the metropolitan area's long history of school segregation, integration, and recent ...
A landscape map of The Kingdom, published in the book by Sadie Smathers Patton, The Kingdom of the Happy Land (1957). Growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, I was taught to ...
When I leave my cell, I leave with a plan. I am headed to the trash, the ice machine, the phone, and back to my cell with my head down, my pace fast. I set my course, half hoping my folks won't answer ...
This essay mentions state-sanctioned death, violent prison conditions, and suicide. Names have been changed to protect privacy. "One day closer to home." Those were the words etched on the wall above ...
The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is an organization of workers in the low-wage, high-turnover service industry of the U.S. South, with members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, ...
A flyer distributed by abolitionists in Boston in 1851. Late in the evening on May 27th, 1821, Joe Forest and two accomplices canoed down the Santee River to South Island, nestled between the major ...
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