WaPo: “More than 40 Lexington residents sat at tables and listened to Todd Gee, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, present the findings. Many of those in attendance were the first to blow the whistle on the police department’s alleged abuses. They clapped modestly after he finished presenting, aware the process…

NY Times: “You are a child of the Jim Crow South who grew up on a farm at a time when Black sharecroppers were hardly more than slaves. But even raised in that world, you understood the injustice of it. “The time for racial discrimination is over,” you said at your gubernatorial inauguration in 1971. Your audience…

Fight Back! News: “In a surprising but significant turn of events, on September 24, Georgia prosecutors have dropped all 15 counts of money laundering against three prominent activists involved in the “Stop Cop City” movement. These activists – Marlon Kautz, Adele MacLean and Savannah Patterson – are leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF), a…

WaPo: “Kate Barr is a blur of activity on the campaign trail this fall. She’s a fixture at local Democratic events, delivering fiery stump speeches. In her neighborhood here in the North Carolina Piedmont, many lawns display her Barbie-pink yard signs. She has branded T-shirts and sweatshirts and glittery stickers. Wherever she appears, her opening…

the Assembly: “On the morning of Sept. 3, 1991, as workers returned from the Labor Day holiday, a huge grease fire tore through a chicken-processing plant in remote Hamlet, N.C., near the South Carolina line. Employees rushed through the chaos to escape but were blocked by locked exit doors. Twenty-five people died. That day, the…

HuffPo: “A judge in Georgia struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban on Monday afternoon. The Fulton county judge, Robert McBurney, ruled the abortion ban unconstitutional under Georgia’s state constitution and suggested that the six-week abortion ban treated women like “collectively owned community property.” “A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that…

WaPo: “Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust. Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and…

Clarion Ledger: “Rumors that the Democratic National Convention would have Beyoncé as a special guest ricocheted through the media last month. Alas, despite her song “Freedom” being the official Harris-Walz theme song, Beyoncé did not make an appearance at the DNC. Was it a mistake that, because of the pop icon rocket fuel driving it,…

As Mark Robinson’s Campaign Crumbles, North Carolina Republicans Seethe “Six weeks before Election Day, the Republican Party in North Carolina is in an extraordinary standoff with its own nominee for governor. After a CNN report last week linked the candidate, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to offensive comments on a porn website, donations to his campaign have dried…

Elon News Network: “In a state where former President Donald Trump won by less than 75,000 votes in 2020, both parties are looking to win over North Carolina through the fastest-growing population in the state — the Hispanic community.  From 2010 to 2020, the Latino population in North Carolina grew by almost 40%, far more than the…