The Improvement Association
- Category
- Narrative
- Host
- Zoe Chace
- Language
- English
The Improvement Association is Zoe Chace’s Serial series about election accusations in Bladen County, North Carolina, and the Black political group that lives under them.
People in town describe a machine. Chace asks who benefits from that description, and what the ballots actually show. The reporting sits in living rooms more than in hearing rooms.
The show is narrative political reporting that does not start in Washington. A local grudge, repeated often enough, becomes a national story about fraud.
The first chapter’s nickname for a local figure is a clue to how the county talks, and later chapters spend that clue carefully.
Last episode listed in the official feed
Chapter One: ‘The Big Shadoo’
Read from the publisher’s RSS on Oct 3, 2026 · Apr 13, 2021 ET. Audio is not hosted here.
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