The Death and Life of Detroit
A shivering knot of college students stands outside Motor City Java House as John George unlocks the front door. It’s 15 degrees in Detroit on a February morning, and fresh snow covers the Old Redford...
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In the week since North Carolina voters adopted a constitutional amendment banning recognition of any "domestic legal union" other than heterosexual marriage, a consensus has formed among journalists...
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Six months before she helped organize the protest known as Hands Across Riverdale, the word “fracking” didn’t mean much to Deb Eck. “Not a damn thing,” says the 52-year-old dollar-store manager. A...
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A Mighty Shout in North Carolina
*/ Jenny WarburgGeoffrey Zeger didn’t attend last year’s Moral Mondays, the series of civil-disobedience events at which more than 900 people were arrested at the North Carolina legislature. The...
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Moral Monday Movement Gears Up for Round Two
©Jenny WarburgRev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina conference of the NAACP, leads a Moral Monday protest in Raleigh, N.C., in 2013.This article has been corrected.On Wednesday...
View ArticleMeet the Doctor Who Went to Jail to Save North Carolina Lives
Next month in Raleigh, North Carolina, physician Charlie van der Horst is scheduled to appear before a Superior Court judge and jury to appeal his second-degree trespassing conviction stemming from his...
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Moral Mondays: Capitol Showdown
©Jenny WarburgKristin Beller, an elementary-school teacher from Raleigh, N.C., addresses her colleagues during this week’s Moral Monday teach-in. Beller must work a second job to pay off her...
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Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Photos by Jenny Warburg for The American Prospect ©Jenny WarburgThe North Carolina NAACP’s Moral Freedom Summer organizers, shown here at a Raleigh protest, fanned out across the state to register and...
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Courtroom Drama: Voting Rights Paid for in Blood Under Siege in North Carolina
©Jenny WarburgNorma Corley (center, in blue) of Winston-Salem was among several hundred people who attended a “March to the Polls” rally on July 7, 2014, after the first day of the...
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Court Rules NC Voting Rights Rollback to Stay In Place Until After Midterm...
©JennyWarburgWhile a federal judge in Winston-Salem heard testimony about North Carolina’s new voting restrictions last month, activists gathered at a nearby plaza to protest the law.A federal judge...
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Tragedy, Privation and Hope: Joy Boothe's Inspiring Journey to Moral Monday
©Jenny WarburgJoy Boothe (in black pants) at a sit-in outside the office North Carolina Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger in June 2014, protesting Republican education cuts.When Joy Boothe...
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Watch Party Dispatch: In the Durham Bubble, N.C. Progressives Caught...
(AP Photo/The Wilmington Star-News, Jason A. Frizzelle)Campaign Manager Erin Rogers, second right, and Democratic party NC Senate District 9 candidate Elizabeth Redenbaugh, right, watch election...
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Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JENNY WARBURGThis article appears in the Winter 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.Derick Smith arrived at the kickoff site for North Carolina’s 2014 Moral...
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Equality Becomes a Talking Point in North Carolina Gubernatorial Race
AP Photo/Gerry Broome, PoolDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Roy Cooper, left, and North Carolina Republican Governor Pat McCrory participate in a live televised debate at UNC-TV...
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Democrats Make Gains in North Carolina Against Backdrop of Voter Suppression
(Photo: Barry Yeoman)Roy Cooper, North Carolina's likely governor-elect, gives an acceptance speech at the state Democratic Party's election-watch party.By 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Raleigh ballroom...
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How To Steal (or Nullify) an Election
AP Photo/Gerry Broome, PoolNorth Carolina Democratic candidate for governor Roy Cooper and his wife Kristin greet supporters during an election night rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday,...
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Counter Protests Swamp KKK Celebration in North Carolina
Barry YeomanAnti-KKK protesters rally in Raleigh. In the end, Saturday’s “Victory Klavalkade”—a celebration of Donald Trump’s presidency by the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux...
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Will GOP Power Seizure in North Carolina Become National Model?
(Photo: Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)Community educator Manju Rajendran shouts as she is arrested in the Senate gallery during the North Carolina General Assembly's special session on...
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North Carolina on the Brink: Repeal of Anti-Transgender Bill Falls Flat
Brian Gomsak/AP Images for Human Rights CampaignCassandra Thomas of Human Rights Campaign holds a sign advocating the repeal of HB2 at a rally in Charlotte. During the longest night of the year—after...
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Toppled! Ridding Durham of Its Racist Monument
(Virginia Bridges/The Herald-Sun via AP)A toppled and crumpled Confederate statue lies on the ground in Durham, North Carolina, on August 14, 2017.Jillian Johnson was out of town Monday night, as a...
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