Rev. C.J. Brinson: Remembering activist Fannie Lou Hamer can show us the way forward
Greensboro pastor C.J. Brinson says that attacks on marginalized communities should not make anyone despair or tune out. By C.J. Brinson Beacon Media Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights leader, in 1964. Credit: Ken Thompson Collection, Global Ministries, The...
Rose Hoban: Amid flu deaths in N.C., warning signs already for next year
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from meetings that establish the flu virus has experts worried.
Raven MacFarlane-Bradbrook: We need Medicaid more than billionaires need tax cuts
Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.
Rose Hoban: Will the kind of research that saved my life still be funded in the future?
Rose Hoban, the editor of N.C. Health News, reacts to recent changes to federal healthcare budgets.
Dalton George: How the Hellbender unites North Carolina’s mountains
This salamander and the federal Act that protects it shows how government can protect the things we all love.