For 25 years, Ilana Dubester’s North Carolina organization El Vínculo Hispano has served rural Latinx communities in Chatham, Alamance, Randolph, and Lee counties. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfurl across the state, she heard firsthand from immigrant workers that outbreaks were forming in rural Central North Carolina’s
Maricela Martinez was thrilled when she was hired in early April to work as a housekeeper at Mountaire Farms in Siler City, North Carolina. Overnight, she became an “essential worker,” performing a crucial but dangerous job at a poultry processing plant with multiple confirmed COVID-19 cases. It was grueling work,
Public places, like the back corner of a crowded McDonald’s on Roberts Ave. in rural Lumberton, North Carolina, have become safe meeting locations for Sheila Price to seek tips about the brutal death of her daughter, Rhonda Jones. Price and other members of the advocacy group Shatter the Silence
The coronavirus has been particularly deadly for low-income people of color, especially Latinx people and immigrant communities—the same communities that account for a significant portion of the workforce at meat processing plants nationwide.
Watching Brett Kavanaugh at hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court was a turning point. It was an eye-opening day for Shakoya Brown, who was a junior at the time at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. That process of approval of someone for the highest court
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