Community Action
May 14, 2010 -
NOTE: This thoughtful essay comes to us from Paul Ortiz, a former Institute board member and director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida in Gainseville, FL. 90 Years After the Ocoee Election Day Race Riot By Paul Ortiz
May 7, 2010 -
In the take of the Gulf oil disaster, news reports have continued to surface of company representatives encouraging -- some would say coercing -- affected individuals to sign agreements limiting their legal rights and ability to file future claims.
April 22, 2010 -
Yesterday, about 20 members of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity -- with nearly as many members of the media in tow -- gathered in downtown Durham, North Carolina to p
April 12, 2010 -
Last fall, Crystal Lee Sutton -- a woman whose bravery in organizing textile workers in the 1970s was immortalized in the film "Norma Rae -- died of brain cancer after battling her insurance company for yea
March 30, 2010 -
As the nation prepares for Census Day on April 1, the Institute has released a new report [pdf] which finds that areas of North Carolina are at high risk of not being fully counted in the 2010 Census due to the economic recession and housing crisis that have hammered parts of the state.