A recent decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court didn’t undo the state’s constitutional promise to provide children with a decent education. But tens of...[Read More]
Native American Heritage Month
Articles >>BY JENNIFER FERRIS It’s hard to picture a classroom without hand-drawn pictures on the walls, or a silent school assembly, absent of small...[Read More]
BY MARION JOHNSON, Sanford School, Duke University Picture a small office with three employees: Jake, a white man; Anita, a Latina woman whose husband lost his...[Read More]
>>When I graduated college two years ago, I knew that I faced an uphill battle to employment. The country’s “Yes We Can” attitude had died...[Read More]
>>There is perhaps nothing more American than standing up for your beliefs. When we feel a wrong has been done to us or our rights...[Read More]
>>The first NC Women’s Summit took place on October 15th, 2013, at UNC-Chapel Hill as a joint collaboration of Women AdvaNCe and the Southern Oral...[Read More]
>>Credit card debt, mortgages, auto loans; sometimes life seems like a never-ending nightmare of owing people money. We learn early. As a 9-year-old, I remember...[Read More]
>>For some of North Carolina’s senior citizens, this year has been a terrifying blast from the past. >>As Bob Hall of Democracy NC explained last...[Read More]
>>By Claire Smith When Carmen Blackmon no longer found fulfillment as a Corporate Analyst at Maersk Logistics, she set out on a journey to find...[Read More]
>>The newest federal education initiative, the Common Core, has been shown to divide roomfuls of education advocates unlike any other topic—and those divisions might surprise...[Read More]