Cliff Collins has run Cliff's Meat Market on Main Street in Carrboro for more than four decades. He has been an open supporter of immigration reform and employs many new Latino immigrants in his store.
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Gerardo (Tolo) Martinez has worked at Cliff's Meat Market for nearly 18 years. He's one of the central characters of the new documentary "Un Buen Carcinero."
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
18-year-old Fernando Vazquez was working his commercial landscaping job on the morning of Nov. 18, 2025, in Cary when Border Patrol agents stopped, arrested, and eventually released him.
For the rest of this week, volunteers will welcome students at school and act as lookouts should immigration agents show up. Many parents are keeping their children home out of precaution.
The Great Cover Up, which started in 1999, is an annual event in Raleigh that features an eclectic lineup of local musicians dressing up and performing cover sets of more famous artists — and audience members don't get any details about the lineup in advance. Now, it's the subject of a new documentary that premieres Thursday on PBS North Carolina.
The Buckhorn Flea Market in Orange County was a thriving economic center that sustained Latino residents and many more. It closed on June 30 to make way for a development approved by the City of Mebane.