by Trevor Barton | Jun 25, 2018 | Opinion
Six out of 10 students at the school where I teach in South Carolina are from the countrysides or inner cities of Mexico, Central America and South America. Many of them are like Paola, a first-grader from El Salvador who lives in a small apartment with her grandma,...
by Trevor Barton | Apr 16, 2018 | Opinion
My shoes thumped the city sidewalk, pounding out the rhythm that runners make as they use their feet to travel from one place to another. I was close enough to the end of my three-mile run and far enough from the Charlotte Ballet building where my son, Zeke, was...
by Trevor Barton | Aug 22, 2017 | Opinion
Jesse Owens placed the notion of white supremacy under the worldwide microscope in the summer of 1936 by winning the gold medal in the 100-meter, 200-meter, 4×100-meter relay and long jump at the summer Olympics in Nazi Germany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on...
by Trevor Barton | Jun 14, 2017 | Opinion
Virgil Morrison Jr. was a 68-year-old man when I met him. Everyone called him “Junior,” but there was nothing junior about him. He was 6-foot-5 and weighed 300 pounds. He smiled an endearing, toothless smile. His feet were size 16, his shoes looked like...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 21, 2016 | Opinion
We set out first thing one morning to check on the ripening fruit. It was early summer when more and more tomatoes were changing from shades of green to shades of red. When you are a farmer, there is thankfulness deep inside of you when the growing is almost done and...
