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The Rev. William Barber had been preparing for this day his entire life. At the 10th Moral Monday demonstration, hundreds of people cram inside the rotunda of the Legislative Building, corralled on both sides by two sets of golden doors that lead to the House and Senate chambers. “You have five minutes to disperse or […]
While more than 1,000 protesters were chanting in the drizzle on the ninth Moral Monday July 1, the director of the state employee’s union, Dana Cope, started ranting on Twitter. “SEANC not part of #moralmonday we think it unwise to break the law & overburden fellow public employees. Prefer sit down/talk policy!” That was one […]
The North Carolina Senate doesn’t have a Wendy Davis. tumblr.com What it did have Wednesday morning was a gallery full of 500 people wearing pink, watching quietly as Senators rammed through an omnibus abortion bill, which may lead to the closure of abortion clinics across the state. Sen. Josh Stein, D-Wake, who, along with his […]
DOMA, the federal gay marriage ban, died last week. Amendment 1, North Carolina’s gay marriage ban, did not. At Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh’s religious hub for gay activism, 150 people filled a dimly lit sanctuary, holding 150 burning candles above their heads, while John Lennon’s “Imagine” played. What they imagined is an America where […]
Republicans are charging ahead with an aggressive voucher program that would use $50 million of taxpayer money to pay for private education over the next two years. But the program may not fulfill its intent and, as in several other states, may run afoul of the state constitution. The conservative “school choice” movement has been […]
Driving east out of Raleigh, early stands of green corn fronds and flaxen wheat stretch for miles. Tropical Storm Andrea has spread gunpowder clouds across the sky and lifts a breeze that sends random patterns rippling through the fields. The closer you get to the coast, the harder farmers must work to bring their crops […]
Sam, a Confederate soldier, stands tall and stoic, rifle across his chest, in the middle of the upper quad at UNC-Chapel Hill. Made of stone, he is in full uniform, is wearing shoes, does not appear to have diarrhea and is not at all bedraggled, which makes him unlike an actual Confederate soldier during the […]
Mel Watt’s district is all kinds of gerrymandered. Republicans packed it with Democratic and black voters back in 2011, when they were in charge of drawing new districts, which happens every ten years after a new census. Packing is bad, because when you corral voters of one stripe into a single district that means there […]
“Moral Monday” protests, which began more than a month ago with 17 arrests, are starting to get real. A crowd of roughly 1,500 people, almost three times larger than any previous protest, gathered on Halifax Mall behind the Legislative Building Monday. Another 151 were then arrested after entering the Legislative Building and refusing to disperse. […]
