Black lands, Mexican bands: How a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub

  Donal Gooch is not pleased about the trash on his arena floor. “It’s pitiful,” he says, speaking with the The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Donal leans back against the stage of the Gooch Sports Arena, the centerpiece of a family-held 12-acre plot in Eagle Rock, North Carolina, an unincorporated community at