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Innovation is infinite — not zero-sum — and North Carolina’s Triad has everything it needs to become a major tech hub without losing itself chasing the Inner Ring.
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Protect them from all hurt, harm, and danger. Gertrude Liverman Coming up as a young boy, my Grandmama would end her prayers over me and my younger brother with that line. Gertrude Liverman, my Grandmama is an amazing woman. She came up on the coast of North Carolina, worked picking crops before getting jobs cleaning…
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My head is still shaking after learning that a prison sits on the land where Floyd McKissick was trying to build a city for black people. White Flight, Urban Crisis, New Cities Soul City was a project McKissick began working on in the late 1960s as part of an initiative at the Department of Housing and…
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The woman pictured above changed my life. Mrs. Jones was my 7th grade social studies teacher. My class was slightly rowdy, yet she always remained in control of the room. I started off underperforming in her class, more concerned with my pursuit of coolness. She pulled me aside one day and told me she knew…
Kwame Som-Pimpong 