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Cumulative Impacts

by Barry Yeoman on May 27, 2022

Click here for “Poultry waste plant that has polluted in the past gets new approval in Robeson County,” Border Belt Independent, May 2022.

Coverage of North Carolina hog industry

by Barry Yeoman on January 27, 2022

Chronological order, oldest to newest. The Vanishing Act (Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019) After years of burying complaints about hog-farm pollution, North Carolina officials began posting them online. What changed? (Also published in The Guardian and McClatchy North Carolina papers.) Raising a Stink (Food & Environment Reporting Network, December 2019) Rural North Carolinians sued the world’s largest hog producer over […]

The Contested Swamps of Robeson County

by Barry Yeoman on September 22, 2021

Click here for “The Contested Swamps of Robeson County,” The Assembly, September 2021.

Battle Hymns of the Old South

by Barry Yeoman on March 1, 2021

Click here for “Battle Hymns of the Old South,” The Baffler, March 2021.

Reports from Alamance County, North Carolina

by Barry Yeoman on November 21, 2020

Particularly since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in May 2020, civil-rights activists in the county seat and former textile-mill town of Graham, N.C. have clashed with both neo-Confederates and law enforcement. He is my coverage for The Washington Post. Local stories July 29, 2020: Is Any Protest a Threat to Public Safety? Oct. 31, 2020: […]

Election Week 2020

by Barry Yeoman on November 5, 2020

Coverage for The Washington Post Local stories Oct. 31: N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids Nov. 1: Peaceful march to the polls in North Carolina is met with police pepper spray and arrests With Isaac Stanley-Becker Nov. 3: N.C. law enforcement agencies sued for […]

In 2016 she voted Green Party. In 2020 she chose Biden.

by Barry Yeoman on November 3, 2020

Originally published in The Washington Post on Election Day 2020 MORRISVILLE, N.C. — In 2016, Ilene Ellis voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, whose emphasis on environmental protection she appreciated. She couldn’t muster enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton, who she assumed would win in a landslide. “I listened to the polls. It seemed to me […]

N.C. law enforcement agencies sued for allegedly intimidating voters

by Barry Yeoman on November 3, 2020

Originally published in The Washington Post on Election Day 2020 DURHAM, N.C. — Civil rights activists in North Carolina sued the leaders of two local law enforcement agencies late Monday, two days after officers broke up a peaceful march to the polls with dispersal orders, pepper spray and arrests. Two lawsuits, filed in U.S. District […]

A Hierarchy of Needs

by Barry Yeoman on September 27, 2020

Click here for “A Hierarchy of Needs,” Carolina Alumni Review, September-October 2020 issue. Opens as a PDF.

Is any protest a threat to public safety?

by Barry Yeoman on July 29, 2020

Yes, said this small North Carolina city. Originally published in The Washington Post. GRAHAM, N.C. — ON SATURDAY MORNING, AS 100 demonstrators stood in a small downtown plaza chanting racial justice slogans, Barrett Brown decided to raise the stakes. Brown, the president of the NAACP’s area branch, grabbed a cardboard poster and slipped across the […]

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