Paying Attention: What is Being Said Out Loud
The Senate is supposed to vote on the SAVE Act next week. Trump, as usual, is making promises and threats. As regards the SAVE Act, this bill uses misinformation to…
Andy Craighill-Middleton: The Dumplings of Humanity
Like dumplings, immigrants often arrive folded by circumstance. They carry stories alongside them - stories of sacrifice, resilience, joy, and grief. Over time, their presence changes the table. New flavors…
Ed Hull: As We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History … an Accolade
I also remember something else - it was the overall involvement and protest of women - in particular, Black females and sisters marching, and participating in all aspects of the…
Sheila Womack: We Demand Better
Like many Americans, I am horrified by what is happening in Minnesota and across our country. These actions are being taken in our name, "we the people," and funded by…
Nan Lund: A House Without a Pet
Maybe there is something missing from the White House that is not as simple as a pet. Maybe it’s the lessons not learned by a life without having an animal…
Black History Maker Deedee Wright is Guest Speaker at Rowan Senior Dems, Feb. 17th
Don't miss Deedee Wright, Black History maker at Senior Dems on Tuesday, 2/17, at 1:00 pm. A contemporary of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, Deedee brings a wealth of information…
As American as Tarta de Manzana (Apple Pie): Thank You, NC Democratic Senator Michael Garrett
...I wept because that is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us.…
Pete Prunkl: A Time to Mourn
As theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer reminded us, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Dear Neighbor, When my grandmother died in 1960, I grieved her death. I had spent…
Harold Stover: Don’t Lose Focus
Look at the N.C. Senators, the N.C. House and Senate, all the way down to our local county commissioners. They are all in lockstep with Trump’s policies and they all…
Duane Galloway: Dreams & Parables
Last week, I dreamed that Benjamin Franklin, among his other achievements, had invented a time machine that had just transported him to the present. He showed up on my doorstep,…