Chris Chavis, Author at 100 Days in Appalachia

Author: Chris Chavis

Education in Appalachia

Commentary: The Cost of Rural School Consolidation

by Chris Chavis on August 5, 2019 Comments are Disabled

On paper, consolidating South Robeson County High School in rural North Carolina might make sense. But how do we account for the intangible losses like community identity, cohesiveness and social investment? A few weeks ago, the Robeson County, North Carolina, Board of Education voted to close South Robeson High School, […]

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Commentary: The Historical Roots Of ‘Send Her Back’

by Chris Chavis on July 24, 2019 Comments are Disabled

The racially charged chants that President Trump elicited last week in Greenville, North Carolina, didn’t arise in a vacuum. Trump is tapping the remnants of the Jim Crow white supremacy movement that seized power from African Americans and other people of color in the rural east in the late 19th […]