The Timeless Boyhood of a Baseball Lifer

Kenny Glanville takes practice swings at a baseball park in Wake Forest. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly)

Kenny Glanville started playing baseball in an era when Black players thrived. That’s changed, but his love of the game hasn’t.

Do The Right Thing

The office of the State Employees’ Credit Union in downtown Raleigh. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

The State Employees’ Credit Union is embroiled in a fight over who will decide the identity and future of the country’s second-largest credit union. 

Garbage In, Toxics Out

Equipment at the Braven Environmental facility in Zebulon, N.C. (Photo buy Schuyler Mitchell for The Intercept)

A Zebulon recycling facility with a record of violations undercuts claims about turning plastic waste into an environmental benefit.