Ian McDowell

1 week ago | yesweekly.com | Ian McDowell

In January 2024, YES! Weekly reported that dozens of Habitat for Humanity homes in the majority-Black East Greensboro neighborhood of Poplar Ridge have deteriorated from water damage caused by improper grading when they were built 25 years ago. In support of the homeowners, the Greensboro Chapter of the NAACP called for the city to withhold funds from Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro until the problems are fixed.

2 weeks ago | yesweekly.com | Ian McDowell

At the April 1 meeting of Greensboro City Council, multiple Black leaders and community organizers called for investment in their Southeast Greensboro neighborhoods, which they accused city leadership of having long ignored.

4 weeks ago | yesweekly.com | Ian McDowell

On Sunday, March 23, Reverend Sadie Lansdale of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro was shocked when police officers reluctantly told her and her fellow congregants that they would have to end the community picnic they and members of the Working Class and Houseless Organizing Alliance (WHOA) were holding in Center City Park. “The whole situation is that WHOA was hosting a picnic so anyone can come and eat,” said Lansdale.

1 month ago | yesweekly.com | Ian McDowell

Local media often refers to Lewis Pitts as a retired civil rights attorney. Pitts did not retire; in 2014, he resigned in disgust from the North Carolina Bar Association. This proved more difficult than retiring, but Pitts is accustomed to difficulty. In 1979, after graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law, he was on the team that exposed the role of Oklahoma police and the FBI in the death of nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood.

1 month ago | yesweekly.com | Ian McDowell

Air Force veteran and cancer survivor Ronald Fulp is again allowed to enter his home at 316 Tate St. in Greensboro’s College Hill neighborhood. Between July 15, 2024, and Jan. 27, Fulp could not do that without permission from B. J. Johnson, founder and CEO of the Burlington-based LLC Metamorph Investments, to whom the city had required Fulp to surrender the keys. As reported in the Aug.