north carolina
November 2, 2024 -
Documents and recordings obtained by Facing South show that key North Carolina local election officials and GOP leaders are active in the N.C. Election Integrity Team, a right-wing group that peddles voting conspiracies and denial of the 2020 presidential election results — raising concerns about their role in the battleground state this year.
October 10, 2024 -
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Down Home North Carolina and allies are drawing on their networks to deliver "people-centered" relief — as well as working to ensure mountain people and communities can rebuild for the long haul.
September 10, 2024 -
In the first installment of our CAROLINADAZE series, a partnership with Common Cause North Carolina, Barbara Sostaita explores how NC's Latinx communities and churches are creating spaces for people to organize and chart a new vision for the future.
September 27, 2023 -
Facing South is republishing a piece from the 1985 Southern Exposure issue, “We Are Here Forever: Indians of the South,” with an introduction by author Forest Hazel, a historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina.
May 12, 2023 -
Some states have taken steps to restore voting rights for people with felony convictions, but Republican officials in places including Florida and North Carolina later reversed the reforms. Proponents of permanent disenfranchisement say it promotes respect for the law, but a growing body of evidence suggests that such policies make their targets more likely to break it again.
March 15, 2023 -
When it comes to protecting North Carolina schoolchildren from the widespread industrial PFAS pollution in the state's drinking water, the burden falls on parent-advocates, the state's cash-strapped school systems, and municipal water systems often unprepared to address the threat.
February 10, 2023 -
Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and a recent report from University of North Carolina researchers shows their population is diverse and growing rapidly in the Southeast — and in North Carolina in particular.
