Congressman Don Davis was serving food and shaking hands with his new constituents on a recent Saturday in Pamlico County, one of six counties added to his district last October when our legislature, at Donald Trump’s insistence, gerrymandered the First Congressional District. Legislators used a gerrymandering technique called “cracking” in creating the new district with 6 new counties and removing 4 from Davis’ previous district, including his Greene County home. In so doi

The plight of the Haitian people has long been a matter of deep personal concern to me. Over the years, I traveled to Haiti on four missionary trips with Ben Hill Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Our mission was to deliver food, medical supplies, and other essential resources to organizations caring for children and families in need. Those experiences gave me a firsthand understanding of both the immense challenges facing Haiti and the extraordinary resilience of its peopl

While searching for some memorabilia recently I stumbled across a large 15-inch x 22-inch envelope labeled North Carolina Documents 1584-1868. It was so intriguing that I consumed most of an afternoon reading its contents. Inside the package were 13 historical documents published in 1985 by The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources’ Division of Archives and History. The fascinating contents included both facsimiles of the original documents, as well as typewritten