Voting restrictions imposed by the North Carolina General Assembly during the legislative session immediately following President Barack Obama’s reelection have been ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Appeals Court. The unanimous 3 judge panel ruled that the law targeted African American

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Rev. Dr. William Barber’s moral critique of plutocracy is a call to arms, not just for the faithful, but for all who want to achieve the America promised to us in our founding documents. Here are 4 videos of Rev. Barber speeches and sermons, produced by Story of America: Here he breaks

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Winston-Salem, NC —  Story of America witnessed the North Carolina General Assembly’s passage of what many call the most aggressive voting restrictions since the end of the Jim Crow Era.  A Federal Court challenge to determine the constitutionality of North Carolina’s restrictions

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This video shot on election day 2012 is the best documentation so far of the unfairness of long lines at the polls in urban centers. Subsequently, other swing states such as Ohio, North Carolina, and Wisconsin have implemented policies designed to engineer long lines at the polls in urban

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I know most of you don’t want to hear this, but I need to get this off my chest. This is not a critique of President Obama’s speech; it is a request for us to hit pause during the ongoing political circus and think about premise of the entire spectacle. Why do we need to hear […]

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Bill Starr has a South Carolina lineage that predates the Revolution, and ancestors who fought in the Civil War for the Confederate States of America. But he wants the Confederate flag flying on the state capitol grounds in Columbia, SC to come down. Annabel Park of Story of America interviewed

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Columbia, SC — For the last few weeks since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17th, the fierce debate here and around the nation revolved around whether or not the Confederate flag should be removed from SC’s Capitol grounds.  From the day after the shooting,

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For most of 2010 through 2012, I was trying to figure out answers to these questions: Why are the American people so divided, and hostile to one another? How will we meet the many challenges we face when there is conflict among the people and gridlock in Washington? I worried at times that we

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We had a simple question when Eric Byler and I began our journey around the country with Story of America: Why have we become so divided as a nation and how can we become more united? As I watched the video of our interview with James Morgan of Bakersville, NC, a mining town in the Appalachian

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