Glenda Gilmore, the author of a new book about acclaimed artist Romare Bearden, talks to books editor Wiley Cash.
August 2022
Posted inBooks
An Artist’s Reckoning
A new book explores acclaimed artist Romare Bearden’s roots in North Carolina and how his work grappled with his family’s experience in the South.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Alberta White’s Last Chance
Alberta White was exactly one year out from her release date when prison officials told her she had 45 minutes to collect everything she owned and get on a bus. It was Black Friday 2019, and she wasn’t even told where she was going—just that she was being moved out of the North Carolina Correctional […]
Posted inPolitics
Thom Tillis and the Art of the Deal
With his next reelection campaign four long years away, North Carolina’s soon-to-be senior senator has emerged as a bipartisan dealmaker. Back home, his party’s conservative wing doesn’t like it.
Posted inPlace
Booming Times, Busted Budgets
Great Smoky Mountains National Park has seen a boom in visitors—14 million last year alone. It’s put a strain on the resources in and around the park’s 500,000 acres.
Posted inMedia
Below the Fold
North Carolina’s third-largest city, Greensboro, once had a thriving newspaper in the News & Record. What’s left after years of media-conglomerate cuts is a shell of the paper’s former self.
Posted inReligion
Schism in the Body
After years of acrimonious debate over gay marriage, the United Methodist Church has started to rupture.