by Fred Mills | Aug 12, 2021 | History, Politics, Race |
Fred Mills is an acclaimed music critic, writer, and editor who grew up in North Carolina. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s a weekend afternoon during the pre-Beatles ’60s, in Smallville, USA (technically, a tiny cotton mill town [name...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 21, 2021 | Editor's Blog, History
George Floyd’s death came in the midst of a pandemic when months of lockdown left tensions high and nerves frayed. Just weeks before, the world learned of the killing of unarmed Ahmaud Arbery by three White men in Georgia. The video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on...
by William Shaw | Aug 18, 2020 | Features, History, Politics, Trump |
On March 2, 1805, a little more than a year after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Vice-President Aaron Burr departed the capitol extolling the U.S. Senate in elegiac terms. He called it “a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here –...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 4, 2018 | Editor's Blog, History
Yesterday, the UNC Board of Trustees struggled to figure out what to do with Silent Sam, the monument honoring Confederate soldiers that was toppled earlier this year. Much of the board would prefer to move the statue off campus but state law prevents that. Instead,...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 22, 2018 | Editor's Blog, History |
I must say, my first reaction when I saw Silent Sam lying with his face in the dirt was, “Well, he was made of better material than that statue in Durham.” Sam looked pretty much intact as he lay there. The Durham Confederate crumbled into a heap of scrap metal when...
by Darren Janz | Aug 13, 2018 | 2018 elections, Features, History, NC Political Geography, News
Share North Carolina’s judicial system consists of three distinct divisions – the Appellate Division, the Superior Court Division, and the District Court Division. Judges in all three branches are elected directly by the people, and while the latter two consist of...
