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Michael Graff

Michael Graff is a writer based in Charlotte, North Carolina.


July 2019

  • Remnants Of Hurricane Matthew Cause Inland Flooding In Parts In North Carolina<br>Austin Snowten stands in a flooded street caused by remnants of Hurricane Matthew on October 11, 2016 in Fair Bluff, North Carolina. Thousands of homes have been damaged in North Carolina as a result of the storm and many are still under threat of flooding.

    The town fighting the climate crisis to stay afloat, one hurricane at at time

    Fair Bluff has already been hit by two hurricanes – but if another arrives this year, it could become one of the US’s first climate crisis ghost towns

September 2018

  • In the floods that followed Hurricane Florence, 3.4 million chickens have been confirmed killed.

    Animals farmed
    Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

    In North Carolina 3.4 million chickens and 5,500 hogs have been confirmed killed as massive lagoons are discharging fecal soup
  • Dorothy Counts, 15, the first black student to attend Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, is followed from school by shouting white students on Sept. 5, 1957. Dr. Edwin Tompkins, a family friend, escorted her. (AP Photo/Douglas Martin)

    This picture signaled an end to segregation. Why has so little changed?

    In 1957, Dorothy Counts endured a taunting mob to integrate a North Carolina school. Sixty-one years later, her work is being undone
  • In October 1954, Hurricane Hazel destroyed the coast of North Carolina.

    Why people stay: in North Carolina it's about roots, memory and family

    Nobody expected Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and those who lived through it, learned from it

May 2018

  • Barry Gibbs at home in Hyde county, North Carolina.

    On the ground: reporting from all corners of America
    ‘It’s worse than murder’: how rural America became a hospital desert

    Since 2010, 83 rural US hospitals have closed – many in counties with poverty rates higher than average – leaving residents in need stranded
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