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North Carolina’s $55 Million Olympic Dream
Top legislators quietly allocated large state grants to attract Olympic organizations to the Charlotte area, with little to show for it.
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A $55 Million Olympic Dream
Top legislators quietly allocated large state grants to attract Olympic organizations to the Charlotte area.
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A 40-Year Fight For State Recognition
View This Email In Your Browser In the 18th century, most members of the Tuscarora tribe in North Carolina migrated to upstate New York as European colonizers encroached on their land and and inflicted harsh limitations on where they could live or what they could do. While those members joined the Iroquois Confederacy, now known […]
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For the Tuscarora, Recognition Has Been A 40-Year Fight
The Tuscarora people want official state recognition as a tribe, but centuries of history and politics stand in their way.
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Coming of Age
North Carolina’s Latino population is growing and changing—and so are expectations for the food served at quinceañeras.
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N.C.’s Quinceañera Scene Comes of Age
View This Email In Your Browser Manolo Betancur’s 12-year-old daughter has no idea what she wants to do for her quinceañera—and that’s not because the important milestone is still three long years away. It’s because the possibilities are limitless. “I am Colombian, her mother is Mexican, and she was born here in Charlotte, North Carolina,” […]
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The Faces of Wilmington’s Unhoused
WHQR follows the lives of homeless individuals in Wilmington as they work together to stay safe.
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Confessions of a Journalist
A reporter thought he could trust the police narrative in a murder case. Now he wrestles with the aftermath.
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Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow
When self-described “retired party girl” Amanda Jones moved to Asheville in 2015, the first hike she took concluded with a brewery visit. “That kind of created my experience with Asheville,” Jones reflected while sipping an iced chai, a beverage more in keeping with her current sober lifestyle. “We just go to breweries for everything.” Asheville, […]