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Rev. Gregory Drumwright (center) with Floyd family attorney Ben Crump. (Courtesy Photo) Rev. Gregory Drumwright, who was in the courtroom Tuesday, has both hope and continuing concern about the relationship between law enforcement and Black Americans The minutes leading to Judge Peter Cahill’s reading of the jury verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were filled with anxiety, angst and uncertainty, says the Rev. Gregory Drumwright, a Greensboro minister who h...

Autopsy confirms Fred Cox died from bullet wounds The official release of Fred Coxs autopsy has resulted in new calls for the State Bureau of Investigation to release its report about the shooting death of the slain High Point teenager.  Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and a handful of other activists and community members held a press conference on Monday to discuss the autopsy recently conducted and released by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Chi...

A week to the day after Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill at the behest of sitting President Donald Trump, Occupy Graham, a new local grassroots group, marched to the Graham offices of federal District 13 Rep. Ted Budd.  Wednesdays march was to signify to Budd their displeasure with his decision to vote against certification of the recent presidential election. Around two dozen people marched to Budds offices to vocalize a series of demands which included the immediate removal of Trump fr...

As fallout from the Jan. 6 march on Capitol Hill continues to reverberate, its impacts are beginning to manifest in small towns. In Graham, the Jan. 6 protest is directly responsible for the creation of a new activist group, Occupy Graham, which is planning a 5 p.m. march on Wednesday.  "A grassroots network in Graham, NC whose mission is to provide community relief based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid and direct action," reads text from the groups Instagram page.  Occupy Graham...

Times-News The petition against closing Alamance County District Court to spectators and reporters has been dismissed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals after county courts released an order allowing limited access. “It doesn’t shock me, its sort of a way of side-stepping a delicate issue,” said Mark Prak, a Raleigh based media lawyer who has represented the Times-News in the past. “Were in a pandemic and if theres judicial proceedings, theres got to be a way for the public to see t...

Two of the lawsuits against the city of Graham, Graham Police Chief Kristy Cole and Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson have merged.  The suits were both filed on Nov. 2 after officers with the Graham Police Department and sheriffs office used pepper spray during the "I am Change" march to the polls held Oct. 31.  The first lawsuit was filed on behalf of Future Alamance, Sylvester Allen Jr, Dejuana Bigelow and Tabatha Davis. The second lawsuit was filed by Rev. Gregory Drumwright, the lea...