The cycle of progress and rollback isn’t inevitable. It’s engineered. Part V closes the series with actionable ideas for building a new multiracial, cross-class movement rooted in justice, strategy, and solidarity.
Judicial elections rarely make national news—but in 2024, North Carolina’s Supreme Court race became a battleground for democracy. This post breaks down what happened, what was lost, and why courts remain a quiet frontline in the rollback war.
A century after Fusion’s fall, Rev. William Barber leads a new movement rooted in old truths: shared struggle, moral clarity, and multiracial democracy. This is Fusion reborn—and a roadmap for resisting today’s rollback.
For decades, North Carolina sterilized thousands in the name of science and “progress.” Part II of the series traces how eugenics became a tool of racial and political control—and how its legacy still lingers.
In the 1890s, North Carolina witnessed a multiracial political coalition that actually worked—until it was violently overthrown in the only successful coup in U.S. history. The story of Fusionism, and its erasure, shows us both the risk and the promise of real democracy.
