activism… The End of Justice for Our Neighbors 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025 On December 16th, I mailed out the final 990 from North Carolina Immigration Law & Justice Center (founded as Fayetteville Justice for Our Neighbors) to the IRS. I notified Truist…
Poetry Summer Poem 30 Jun 20251 Jul 2025 It is sand. Pines. Sand. Artillery. Pines. Sand. Cardealerships for miles. I am 40. I remember standing on the edge of the Atlantic,New Year’s Eve 1999.I was 14, soon to be 15,and as midnight struckI remember…
activism… Face to Face with Fascism: Reflections on The Long March for Unity and Justice 14 Dec 202431 Dec 2024 Foreshadowing By late September, I was nearly certain Donald Trump would win the election. The signs were everywhere, figuratively and literally—even in unexpected places like the Long March for Unity…
climate… The Next Disaster 29 Sep 202429 Sep 2024 Western North Carolina is in crisis, along with much of the southeastern United States. My aunt in Tennessee was woken at 2:00 a.m. by the sheriff’s department, warning of the…
Teaching… Public Funds, Private Schools 21 Sep 202321 Sep 2023 On Glensford Drive here in Fayetteville one could be forgiven for not even noticing Montclair Elementary School, lost as it is in the enormous shadow of Berean Baptist Church. Across…
history… Trouble at Bragg 29 Jun 202019 Dec 2023 Night of Terror Early in the morning of 6 August 1941, 500 Black soldiers lay on the ground of the prison yard at Fort Bragg. For five hours they were…
Genealogy… Why I Don’t Respect the Confederate Legacy 8 Mar 201825 Jul 2021 Preface I love the South. I also hate the South. I am descended from at least thirteen ancestors who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Many Americans…
Sports The Hornets Nickname: A Brief History 4 Mar 201827 Jul 2021 I was born in 1985 in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1988, the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA franchise, began playing basketball at the Charlotte Coliseum. My mom, an avid sports fan,…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part II 3 Feb 20188 Jul 2021 When I was in the gym the other morning I saw a commercial for Ancestry.com. Fancy graphics and promises of using your DNA to discover, in the case of the…
Genealogy The Murder of Joseph H. James: Part I 1 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Well, it's time for another round of weird stories from my father's side of the family. My last name, like LeBron's, is James - though that's where the similarities end…
An Unhappy Consciousness 