When Jolene Strickland ran for North Carolina governor in 1996, she received press coverage, money, and votes. If only she existed. Originally published in The Assembly. The 1996 campaign season had just kicked off, and the editorial staff of the Independent Weekly, where I worked at the time, was meeting at our Durham office to plan our […]
Transition of Care
After last year’s passage of legislation restricting medical treatment for transgender youth, North Carolina families seeking care for their children are looking across state lines. Original published in Harvard Public Health and The Assembly. Photos by Matt Ramey. NORTH CAROLINA’S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DEBATED for only four minutes before casting a final vote to restrict […]
As climate change erodes land and health, one Louisiana tribe fights back
After decades of losing coastline, Native Americans look to a young chief to help them find a place in the future. Original published by Harvard Public Health and the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Photos by Edmund D. Fountain. DEVON PARFAIT STEERS HIS TRUCK into the parking lot of what used to be a firehouse on […]
Changing a River’s Course
A new movement wants to establish that the Haw River has its own independent, inalienable rights. It’s a long shot, but organizers hope it can change the framing of environmental protection. Originally published in The Assembly. Photos by Roderico Díaz. As a child in the 1980s, Crystal Cavalier-Keck spent summer days inside her grandmother’s classroom […]
Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide? Originally published in The Nation. IN JANUARY 2020, DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE in New York banned a photography professor named Lowell Handler from its property and declared him unqualified […]
Stress test
New research tools help scientists measure stress in wildlife before their populations plummet. Originally published in National Wildlife JUST BEFORE SUNRISE, LOUIS HUNNINCK woke up at a research center in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. He climbed into an off-road vehicle, joined by an assistant, and rode through the scrubby equatorial landscape until they saw a group […]
‘That’s Fake News!’
False information has reached a crescendo, but it’s hardly a new phenomenon. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post. ON A RAINY MORNING IN MAY 1917, residents of Boise, Idaho, opened their city’s newspaper to see column after column of World War I dispatches. One report stood out from the rest. It topped page 4, next […]
Stories from National Wildlife
Bayou Bandleader (on musician and naturalist Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes) Two of a Kind (on same-sex behavior) Stress Test (on measuring stress hormones in conservation research) Room to Roam? (on wildlife during the pandemic) Hope Rising (on the Endangered Species Act) Going the Distance (on bird migration) A Plague of Plastics Power Play (on sexual harassment […]
Cumulative Impacts
Originally published in the Border Belt Independent, May 2022. LAST WINTER, AS THE N.C. DEPARTMENT of Environmental Quality (DEQ) considered a new permit for a Robeson County plant that generates electricity by burning poultry waste and wood, it turned to the public for comment. The earful it received was mighty and unanimous. The facility, owned […]
The Youngest Operative
Cutler Bryant is 17. He is also a key political strategist in Robeson County, N.C., where Lumbee voters are in the forefront of a hard shift to the Republican Party. Originally published in the Border Belt Independent. WHEN THE ROBESON COUNTY REPUBLICAN Republican Party held its annual convention in March, one of the star speakers […]
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