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Feeding An Army

Soldiers eat lunch at Spears Ready Warrior Restaurant at Fort Liberty. (Andrew Craft for The Assembly)

Nearly one out of three Fort Liberty soldiers and their family members are food insecure. Can efforts to address it fill the gap?

Tanya Robinson talks with supporters. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

An upstart effort to get more working-class people to run for political office takes root in Ashe and Alamance counties.

Tammy Crowder and her daughter Kendra Pate outside the family home. (Travis Dove for The Assembly)

Medicaid was designed to provide healthcare for the poorest Americans. But after death, their relatives can be socked with massive bills.

One of Durham Rescue Mission’s thrift stores. (Kate Medley for The Assembly)

The Durham Rescue Mission takes in people with nowhere else to go, but some former guests say the nonprofit exploited them at their lowest point.

A recent photo of Hasson Jamaal Bacote.

A superior court judge will begin a hearing next week in a death row case that could affect other Racial Justice Act claims.

Trucks carrying waste line up at the state’s largest landfill. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly)

In Roseboro’s Snow Hill neighborhood, a community has waged a 50-year fight against the state’s largest landfill.