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White Control in Fund Distribution
Willie Johnson has been driving 30 minutes from his hometown in New Bern, NC to the more rural area of Trenton, NC for nine years. His congregation is there...
The 2024 hurricane season is set to begin on June 1 and is predicted to be one of the most active on record. In Coastal NC, there are rural and BIPOC communities that are constructed in flood zones, which can worsen existing inequities. Our Flood Zone series has shared some of their stories.
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Back Street: A Neighborhood in a Bowl
“I can only imagine what my parents had to go through for that land.” Gwendolyn Brown grew up in Back Street, a long-time African American community in Trenton, NC....
Hearing Stories Versus Knowing Stories
Beverly Johnson’s family bought land by the river in Trenton, NC early in the 20th century. Land ownership options then were limited for African Americans families. Inheriting land in...
Birthday Party
Helen Barrett from Episode 3 shares a poem she wrote about sharing a birthday with Hurricane Florence. Two years since her house flooded with three feet of water, Barrett...
First, There Was the Fire
Helen Barrett drove school buses in New Bern, NC for 25 years. In early adulthood, she saw the fire of 1922 change the landscape of her city – pushing...
Get Thee Behind Satan
Fanny Irving has lived in Trenton all of her life. She lives in the home that from 1971 – 1975 she built with her late husband. First Floyd, and...
Black Pockets
Eric Brown is from Back Street, a once thriving African American community named for being the opposite to downtown. Back Street has nearly been wiped out from repeated hurricane...
