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“People are craving to get out,” said Mike Marr of Vernon Hills, brewmaster of Buffalo Creek Brewing.

The N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission’s process for conducting its hearings needs updating in the wake of the denial Thursday of innocence claims from four men in a high-profile Forsyth County

Feliccia Smith wants others to listen, to learn, to educate – and then to memorialize the four Black men from Greenville County who were lynched.

Liberal activist the Rev. William Barber is loudly calling for a special prosecutor to take over the case of Andrew Brown, who was shot after Pasquotank County deputies tried to serve him with search and arrest warrants. “Inept. Incompetent. Incapable of fixing this,” Barber in a community protest, according to the News & Observer. “We need independent prosecutors now. Release the tape, the whole tape, to everybody.” Barber attacked the locally elected district attorney, Andrew Womble, ...

4 Black lives ended in lynchings. Here are their stories in Greenville Countys history. Angelia L. Davis, Greenville News Nations first lynching memorial confronts legacy of racial terror Replay Video UP NEXT The history of lynching victims in Greenvilles past was brought to light each Monday in February, in observance of Black History Month. These stories were aided from the research and documentation of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County (CRP). The CRP, in...

In late summer 1899, somewhere near Travelers Rest, Tom Keith drew his last breath. An online database lists Keith among the lynching victims of 1860-1950, and cites the method of his death as "riddled by bullets." Robert Williams kidnapped and murdered in 1881 White residents of Greenville and Anderson counties participated in the 1881 kidnap and murder of a Black man. That man was Robert Williams. He was a husband and a father of two children. He was also accused of assaulting a white woman....

If you ever had the good fortune to be in the same room with Pete Clary, be that a courtroom or a barroom, odds are good you might have heard him before you saw him. Not that Clary, the first chief public defender for Forsyth County, was overly loud. He wasn’t. Rather, it was because he was passionate in his beliefs and he’d express them in no uncertain terms - no matter who was listening. “My most vivid memory of Pete isn’t of him as a public defender,” said Tom Keith,...

By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com Dec 14, 2020 Directly Above Shot Of Person Holding Heart Shape On Table POUGHKEEPSIE- Members of the Dutchess County Legislature are scheduled to receive a $477 raise in 2021 while county employees will not be receiving raises due to financial woes created by the pandemic. Thirteen lawmakers are pledging to donate their raises to charities of their choice. In 2019, the prior legislative body approved a three percent increase for the 2021 calendar year....

good evening. the iowa caucuses are 60 days away. while it is early yet in the scheme of things, this presidential election season for republicans vying for the nomination, the time to choose is coming sooner rather than later. and all the while the sexual harassment drama has dominated at least the weeks political headlines and overshadowed other aspects of the race. its been a while since we heard about herman cains 9-9-9 economic plan. instead and again tonight we are hearing about ...

good evening. the iowa caucuses are 60 days away. while it is early yet in the scheme of things, this presidential election season for republicans vying for the nomination, the time to choose is coming sooner rather than later. and all the while the sexual harassment drama has dominated at least the weeks political headlines and overshadowed other aspects of the race. its been a while since we heard about herman cains 9-9-9 economic plan. instead and again tonight we are hearing about ...