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Opinion: Has the campaign of fear against Latinos in North Carolina awoken a sleeping giant?

by Beacon Media | Nov 25, 2025 | Latino Community, North Carolina, North Carolina Community, U.S. Politics

Brutal treatment and indiscriminate policing by federal law enforcement shown across social media has galvanized thousands of Latinos in North Carolina and beyond.

Stevie Brooks: As communities struggle with hunger, food is all around us

by Stevie Brooks | Nov 18, 2025 | Affordability, Beacon Voices, North Carolina, Stevie Brooks

One effort shows that area farms can play a role in helping to feed people. Will that be enough with the current crisis in food assistance?

Two worlds: One snuck cigarettes as a teen. The other labored in NC’s tobacco fields.

by Briana Brough | Nov 14, 2025 | Agriculture, North Carolina, North Carolina Community, Reclaiming Rural

Beacon Media’s Community Media Liaison Bri Brough, who is also a photographer, spent the day recently with Beacon Voice Yesenia Cuello and heard her story.

Preston Blakely: What wielding a vacuum has taught me about power

Preston Blakely: What wielding a vacuum has taught me about power

by Preston Blakely | Nov 5, 2025 | Beacon Voices, Elections, Labor, Local Politics, North Carolina, North Carolina Community, Preston Blakely

Cleaning and vacuuming taught the mayor of Fletcher, N.C., a small Western North Carolina town near Asheville, what a gavel never could about leadership and how to be a mayor.

A Rosh Hashanah Sermon: Revisiting Our Truths as an Act of Teshuvah

by Beacon Media | Nov 1, 2025 | History, North Carolina

Let us question ourselves and what we think we know as an act of empathy, Rabbi Hannah Bender of Judea Reform synagogue argued in their Rosh Hashanah or New Year’s sermon in September.

Democracy does, in fact, die in darkness

by Jeremy Borden | Oct 27, 2025 | History, Local Politics, News Media, North Carolina

The end of an era at the Washington Post marks a turning point for media’s role in strengthening our democracy in North Carolina and beyond.

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