Stella Snyder, a writer and researcher who served as editorial assistant for the late Sen. Jesse Helms’ memoir, discusses the continuing importance of Helms’ and Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s anti-communism. Snyder delivered these remarks during a joint N.C. History Project/Jesse Helms Center Lecture, “No One Can Bar The Road to Truth,” delivered Oct. 13, 2010. The lecture is tied to the new NCHP paper, Champions of Freedom: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Jesse Helms. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
NC food banks get $18M boost as SNAP payments set to pause
Ahead of two federal judges’ separate rulings on Friday that the Trump administration must use a $6 billion emergency fund to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, as it is set to pause on Saturday due to the federal government shutdown, North Carolina and others are donating nearly $18 million to food banks across the state.