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“You don’t have any bombs in the back of your car, do you?” Asif Ansari, a forty-three-year-old with light-brown skin and a graying beard, was with his wife and two sons at a zoo on the West Coast in 2013, watching an exhibit. An extended family approached him. A man had made the remark. He […]
After their debate Tuesday night, both Governor McCrory and Attorney General Roy Cooper answered questions from the media and sought to expand upon their arguments against one another. The gubernatorial election this fall promises be voters’ clearest indication of which path the state should follow for the next four years—including the acceptance or rejection of […]
On Wednesday and Thursday, the first-annual Carolina Food Summit in Chapel Hill gathered together a group of at least one hundred community leaders, writers, professors, business owners, chefs, and others to talk about the state of food in North Carolina. Among the forty speakers invited to share their solutions for a broken food system was […]
A battle was won, but the war raged onat least in North Carolina. Members of Equality NC, one of the oldest LGBTQ advocacy organizations in the state, will tell you that long before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015, they knew that a favorable verdict was only the […]
Judge Thomas Schroeder, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a limited preliminary injunction against the transgender-bathroom provision of House Bill 2 late Friday. Noting that the transgender plaintiffs in the lawsuit “made a clear showing” that they will “suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief,” the court order prevented the University of North […]
All I can say is, once the new card arrived, I saw a much happier child and more confident child, once he felt that he was legally recognized as a male,” Alice says, speaking about the day her son, now sixteen, got his revised birth certificate in the mail last June. (Alice’s name has been […]
What struck me first was the amazing operatic sound emanating from the North Carolina General Assembly. I had never before been to an opera, so perhaps this music was ordinary in its extraordinariness. But still, the amount of effort and finesse in sustaining those songs was astounding, powerful, and resonant. When I arrived at the […]
All of the sudden, my eyes widened. The incident I had worried about had arriveda bowel movement, that rumble in your tummy that says you have to go right now. Problem was, I was on UNC–Chapel Hill’s campus, and though I’m a woman, my birth certificate lists my sex as male. And under North Carolina’s […]
