Camel City United Indivisible -Events

09/14/2026

One of the biggest barriers to participation is confusion.

If you are getting ready to vote in North Carolina, take time now to check the basics: your registration status, where you vote, what identification you may need, and how you will get there. A voting plan can make the process feel clearer and less stressful.

Camel City United Indivisible believes voter education is community care. When neighbors have accurate information and a plan, it becomes easier to show up, support one another, and build a more just and inclusive democracy.

Use our free community resources and share them with someone who may need them.

https://camelcityunitedindivisible.org

09/11/2026

If you have questions about voting, you should not have to sort through confusion alone.

Camel City United Indivisible provides free and open to the community voter education and civic engagement resources, including voter registration information, registration checks, voting-plan assistance, election reminders, information about when and where to vote, and Get Out the Vote outreach.

Our work is rooted in helping Forsyth County neighbors navigate real barriers and reclaiming our democracy—block by block, voice by voice.

Explore our resources and stay connected for local opportunities to get involved.

https://camelcityunitedindivisible.org

09/10/2026

📣 MORE BIG NEWS in the Forsyth County District Attorney’s race!

Camel City United Indivisible (CCUI) has endorsed Amara Hunter for Forsyth County District Attorney — and now Governor Josh Stein has endorsed her as well.

Governor Stein highlighted Amara’s unusual breadth of experience. She has seen our justice system from several different perspectives:

👮🏾 Former Detroit Police Officer
⚖️ Former Assistant Prosecutor
⚖️ Current Assistant Public Defender in Forsyth County

That experience matters. The District Attorney makes decisions every day that affect public safety, accountability, fairness, and justice throughout Forsyth County.

Now there’s an opportunity to hear from Governor Stein and support Amara:

📅 October 19
⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM
🎤 Special Guest: Governor Josh Stein

Registration is required:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/amaragovstein

CCUI went through an endorsement process and chose Amara Hunter for District Attorney. We encourage voters to learn about this important race, learn about Amara, and make a plan to vote.

🗳️ Local elections matter. Your vote matters.

Show your support with a contribution.

09/09/2026

Did you know voters engaged by nonprofits about voting were 10 percentage points more likely to vote than comparable voters, according to Nonprofit VOTE’s 2022 field data cited in its 2025 report [1]?

That matters here in Forsyth County. Voter education, reminders, registration checks, and voting-plan support can help cut through confusion and make participation feel possible.

Camel City United Indivisible offers free and open to the community voter education and civic engagement resources because building people power starts with making sure our neighbors have clear, accessible information.

https://camelcityunitedindivisible.org

09/08/2026

📣 **WINSTON-SALEM IS GETTING NATIONAL ATTENTION!**

This is exciting.

**Winston-Salem has now been highlighted nationally in USA TODAY — AND Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin specifically mentions Winston-Salem in his national interview with Aaron Parnas.**

At **8:48** in the interview, Ezra says:

**“You got Winston-Salem, North Carolina.”**

He then highlights the voter outreach happening here on the morning of October 17 as an example of how communities across the country are putting **No Kings: Vote Early** into action locally.

And there's another part that really captures what October 17 is about. Ezra says:

**“Voting happens locally. Voting happens at the precinct level.”**

That is exactly where this work is happening — neighbors reaching neighbors and communities organizing locally.

🎥 **WATCH EZRA'S WINSTON-SALEM SHOUT-OUT — STARTING AT 8:48:**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVSG8HuoGTA&t=528s

📅 **Saturday, October 17**
Morning: Neighborhood voter outreach
Afternoon: Community gathering at Corpening Plaza

Winston-Salem is part of a nationwide No Kings day of action — and our community's plans are getting national attention.

**Watch it. Share it. And join us October 17.**

09/08/2026

I WATCHED A VIDEO ABOUT SKIN COLOR — AND IT SENT ME DOWN A RABBIT HOLE.

I knew that melanin and skin color were connected to sunlight. But I had never really stopped to think about what that history means.

Our earliest human ancestors in Africa had darkly pigmented skin. In areas with intense UV radiation, melanin provided important protection, including helping protect folate. As human populations migrated into places with less UV radiation, lighter pigmentation evolved in some populations because it helped the body produce sufficient vitamin D.

Think about that.

The differences in skin color that human beings have spent centuries fighting over began, fundamentally, as adaptations to different environments.

☀️ Geography.
🧬 Evolution.
🌍 Human migration.

Not a hierarchy of human worth.

Then I started reading the scholarship of historian Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning, and another part of this history became even more fascinating.

Kendi challenges the way many of us were taught to think about racism.

We often assume racial hatred came first and discriminatory policies followed.

His argument is that history frequently shows another sequence:

SELF-INTEREST → DISCRIMINATORY POLICY → RACIST IDEAS TO JUSTIFY IT.

One example Kendi examines goes back to 15th-century Portugal.

Prince Henry of Portugal was connected to an increasingly profitable trade in captive Africans. The royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara later described very different African peoples as though they constituted one inferior group and portrayed their enslavement as something that could supposedly benefit them.

That doesn’t mean two men simply “invented racism.” The history is much more complicated than that.

But it illustrates something important:

People can create stories that make an unequal system seem reasonable, natural—or even necessary.

And THAT brings me to the organizing work we are doing today with Camel City United Indivisible (CCUI).

Voting isn’t just about choosing between names on a ballot.

It is one of the ways ordinary people determine WHO GETS TO WRITE THE RULES.

Who decides how our schools are funded?

Who determines access to the ballot?

Who decides where public resources go?

Who writes tax policy?

Who makes decisions about housing, transportation and our neighborhoods?

And whose voices are missing when those decisions are made?

That is why CCUI keeps organizing neighborhood by neighborhood.

We aren’t simply telling people, “Go vote.”

We’re asking people to KNOW what is happening, TALK to their neighbors, BUILD relationships and then ACT together.

KNOWLEDGE → ACTION → NETWORK.

Because if Kendi’s historical argument teaches us anything, it is that we should always ask:

Who benefits from the story we’re being told—and who benefits if we don’t participate in the decisions?

So I’m curious:

👉 Did you know this history of human skin pigmentation?

👉 Had you ever heard Kendi’s argument that discriminatory policies and self-interest can produce the racist ideas used to justify them—not simply the other way around?

👉 And does knowing that history change the way you think about why voting and community organizing still matter today?

I really want to hear what people think.

09/07/2026

On Labor Day, we’re honoring the workers, caregivers, organizers, teachers, service staff, and neighbors whose daily labor holds our communities together.

At Camel City United Indivisible, we believe a stronger Forsyth County is built when working people are heard, protected, and respected. The fight for a more just and inclusive democracy is inseparable from the fight for dignity, safety, and voice in every neighborhood.

Today, we’re holding space for rest, gratitude, and solidarity with the people whose labor powers our community every day.

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

Some of the most important democracy work does not start with a speech. It starts with a question.

Our listening sessions are rooted in a simple commitment: not to talk but to LISTEN. In neighborhoods with low voting rates, we want to hear what people are actually facing — transportation barriers, confusing rules, lack of trust, busy schedules, caregiving demands, or feeling ignored by decision-makers.

When we listen first, we build people power that reflects real community needs. That is how we amplify underrepresented voices and build a stronger Forsyth County from the ground up.

If you want to help create spaces where neighbors can be heard, join us.

https://camelcityunitedindivisible.org

09/05/2026

📚 LET’S GIVE OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS CREDIT — FORSYTH COUNTY IS MAKING REAL PROGRESS

The newly released 2025–26 North Carolina school accountability results give us something worth celebrating.

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools made significant academic strides.

✅ 12 schools improved a full performance letter grade.
✅ 6 schools came off the state’s low-performing list.
✅ Third-grade reading reached a 10-year high.
✅ The graduation rate reached 86.3% — the second-highest in district history.
✅ The district reported its best post-pandemic performance across several important academic measures.

Mineral Springs is one of the schools showing especially encouraging improvement.

But we should also be clear about what these numbers do — and do not — tell us.

Schools such as Carver High, North Forsyth High and Reynolds High did not make the list of schools that jumped an entire letter grade. That doesn’t automatically mean students there aren’t progressing. North Carolina’s school performance grade is based primarily on achievement, with student growth accounting for a much smaller portion.

That distinction matters, especially for schools serving communities where students may begin the year facing larger academic and economic challenges.

So there is more work to do. We need to look not only at a school’s letter grade, but also at where students started, how much they grew, graduation rates and whether achievement gaps are closing.

After an extraordinarily difficult year for our school system, one thing is clear:

Forsyth County’s public schools are making measurable academic progress.

Celebrate the progress.
Study the disparities.
Support our teachers and students.
And keep pushing until that progress reaches every school and every neighborhood.

Our public schools are worth the investment. 📚