Opinion
Carolinian championed freedom for all
John Jacobs and his successors were fighting not to undermine the American republic but to fulfill its promise — to redeem the “promissory note.”
Opinion
Freedom Park lifts up heroic stories
The state government complex in Raleigh is home to a new park. Constructed on Lane Street between the legislative building and the governor’s mansion, North Carolina Freedom Park was designed by the late Phil Freelon of the architecture firm Perkins + Will. A key feature of the acre-sized park is a sculpture entitled “Beacon of...
Opinion
Former slave blazed trail for writers
Pure, unadulterated freedom is what Harriet Jacobs and so many other North Carolinians were long denied. Pure, unadulterated freedom is the goal for which so many fought, sometime paying the ultimate price.
