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A Winter Journey to Poverty in North Carolina

Michael Carmichael | Posted 03.05.2012 | Politics
Read More: University of North Carolina, Poverty, Washington, Work and Opportunity, Prophet Isaiah, Naacp, African-American, Beaufort, Center for Poverty, Dr. Martin Luther King, Unemployment, Latino, Great Recession, Jr., Raleigh, North Carolina, Pasquotank, Haliax, Hertford, Edgecombe, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

North Carolina's black economic backwater suffers from systemic economic exclusion characterized by the lowest rates of education in North Carolina, pitifully low levels of investment, deepening indebtedness and acute never-ending unemployment.

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My Reading Life: The Scales Have Fallen From My Eyes

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Beaufort, Paris, Leo Tolstoy, Atlanta, James Dickey, Thomas Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

The power and draw of Pat Conroy remains, but with limitations. My Reading Life has opened me up to his faults -- things which I did not want to see in the past or which were not as blatant.

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Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture

Rosemary Ahtuangaruak | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Marine Fisheries Service, Inupiat, Colville River, Thanksgiving, Redoil, Shell Oil, Niqliq, Offshore Drilling, Subsistence Food, Bush Administration, Hunting, Bowhead Whales, Alaska, Nuiqsut, Family, Chukchi, Beaufort, Video, Green News
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak

Inupiat communities across the Arctic coast of Alaska primarily depend on Bowhead whales for subsistence food. Shell's proposals to drill for oil and gas in the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea are detrimental to that tradition.

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