AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo‘An Odd Cross to Bear’: The choices Ruth Bell Graham made as Billy Graham’s wifecharlotteobserver.com - By Dannye Romine PowellShe believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell …
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AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMary Tribble, ‘spiritual seeker,’ finds kinship with fourth great-grandmothercharlotteobserver.com - By Dannye Romine PowellVermont native Sally Merriam Wait, wife of Wake Forest University founder Samuel Wait and the fourth great-grandmother of author and former Charlotte …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIn new novel, Charlotte doc tackles pandemics, her COVID fight and what’s around the cornercharlotteobserver.com - By Dannye Romine Powell“Compelling to its core,” says Booklist in its starred review of Kimmery Martin’s “Doctors and Friends” (Berkley, $27). The Charlotte emergency …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGetting NC writer’s ‘Sesame Street’ book made into a movie? Not as easy as 1, 2, 3.charlotteobserver.com - By Théoden Janes(Editor’s note: The subject of this story, Michael Davis, is southern region manager for Solutions Journalism Network and led the formation of the …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe story behind North Carolina’s Soul City, a dream of Black economic powercharlotteobserver.com - By Thomas HealyThis is an excerpt from “Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia.” On a sweltering summer day in 1972, Floyd McKissick led …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIn rural North Carolina, Soul City was an ‘American Utopia’ unrealizedcharlotteobserver.com - By Tyler DukesAbout an hour north of Raleigh, a handful of residential streets still hint that something bold happened on this patch of rural Warren …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNeed a good book for the holidays? Here are 11 gems to choose fromcharlotteobserver.com - By Dannye Romine PowellI have fished the wide ocean of holiday books and reeled in a select 11 for you to choose from. Some are salty, some meaty, some succulent, a couple …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFrom ‘American Idol’ to Nina Simone and in-between, NC’s rich music legacy thrivescharlotteobserver.com - By Stacy ChandlerSometimes being a pack rat pays off. Over David Menconi’s nearly three decades writing about music for The (Raleigh) News & Observer, he got into the …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLaunching a universe: NC author’s first YA novel debuts on NYT Best Sellers listcharlotteobserver.com - By Susie WildeNorth Carolina author Tracy Deonn was at a loss for words Wednesday when her first young adult novel, “Legendborn,” debuted at No. 5 on The New York …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFormer Observer reporter details hunt for Nazis in America in gripping new bookcharlotteobserver.com - By Dannye Romine PowellI have read fictional thrillers far less gripping than a new non-fiction book about the hunt for Nazi war criminals in the U.S. The book is “Citizen …
AvatarThe Charlotte ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBook reveals new details about NC’s infamous Word of Faith Fellowship ‘cult’charlotteobserver.com - By Brooke CainTwo award-winning journalists have written a book revealing new details about an infamous North Carolina church — often characterized as a cult — …