north carolina
November 25, 2025 -
Siembra NC mobilized thousands of volunteers to protect schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces in the wake of Border Patrol's latest operation in N.C. — and they aim to shift power in the battleground state.
October 31, 2025 -
As North Carolina gets dragged into the national congressional redistricting wars, Facing South talked with democracy advocate Tyler Daye about how we got here, and the road ahead for redistricting reform.
May 9, 2025 -
After moving control of North Carolina elections into the GOP-led N.C. State Auditor's office, Republicans have appointed a long-time conservative activist in Art Pope's network to chair the state election board who has pushed harsh voter restrictions and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.
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.
