by Graig Meyer | Nov 26, 2025 | Beacon Voices, Graig Meyer, Latino Community, Migration, North Carolina, U.S. Politics
When federal immigration enforcement agents deployed to Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and other places around North Carolina, terrifying and haphazard arrests ensued. Graig Meyer has some questions for the people behind the masks.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.