by Admin | May 10, 2023 | NEWS
The Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center is the first county building named after a Black woman, and the only agricultural center in the state of North Carolina named after a Black Family and Consumer Sciences or Home Demonstration Agent. The...
by Admin | Apr 25, 2023 | NEWS
Phyllis Portie-Ascott was chosen to fill the vacant seat on the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, which voted unanimously in favor of her appointment — one of four final applicants for the position. Portie-Ascott was also the Orange County Democratic...
by Admin | Apr 25, 2023 | NEWS
Town of Chapel Hill Rights a Wrong in 2022 Council Meeting Thirty-three years ago, local and state law enforcement, some wearing masks and carrying automatic weapons, swarmed a block of downtown Chapel Hill, forcing Black people to the ground for an illegal search. In...
by Admin | Apr 25, 2023 | NEWS
by Admin | Apr 25, 2023 | NEWS
The Carrboro Town Council has approved a Truth Plaque to be installed at the Toney and Nellie Strayhorn Homeplace located at 109 Jones Ferry Road. The plaque will read: “Enslaved in Orange County, Toney and Nellie Strayhorn were one of the first Black families to...
by Admin | Apr 5, 2023 | NEWS
Howard Allen’s passion for agriculture started when he was a young child on his family’s homestead in Jamaica before moving to New York and then North Carolina. Faithfull Farms was born in 2013 when Howard began farming for market on his church’s land in Orange...
