Where Does Your News Come From? Here’s our List
Our media team consists of eight folks with different skills, backgrounds, and responsibilities, and we range in age from 30 something to eighty something. Our weekly zooms and correspondence may…
Dr. Andria Porter: An Expression of Grief and Loss
On a personal note, this is not a fight that I wanted right now. I am so very tired. I am tired of the impunity and obvious proclivity that all levels of…
Kathy Vestal: Why Be Proud of Jason Collins
It is for those future generations, as well as simply for a desire to remove one's own prison walls, that some of the most courageous LGBT people choose to “come…
We’re Watching: Wisdom from Aunt Tifa
Here's your reminder that we each make a difference in our own way. And who knows? After all, the NC House finally passed a budget.... Let's see how many "likes"…
Karen Puckett: Yes Virginia, a Child’s Voice DOES matter!
Words matter. So do elections. Karen Puckett calls out long time and long time, overdue gone from the House, Representative Virginia Foxx, to leave Congress. It's time for change! Yes…
Bianca Muñoz: An Ode to the Laundromat
You see people on ordinary days and on hard days. You see parents folding tiny clothes, workers washing the week off their uniforms, neighbors helping neighbors without being asked. There’s…
A Possible Primer: How to Answer Questions about Christian Nationalism not being Christian
Christian nationalism is on the rise in our nation and folks in Rowan County are taking notice. Since January, Senior Dems covered the topic, Actions in Faith & Justice presented…
Art Takes a Stand: The Secret Handshake
Humor and the arts are yet one other way to fight authoritarians and demand real answers and justification! The anonymous artist collective, The Secret Handshake, describes themselves as a small…
Sabrina Harris: The State of NC Public Education
Democratic candidate for NC House 77, Sabrina Harris: "As diverse as the North Carolina landscape is, so should our public education system be but not at the cost of being…
Evelyn Uddin-Khan: The Patriots and the King
Evelyn Uddin-Khan - Abraham Lincoln: “American will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Theodore Roosevelt: “Patriotism…