Published February 5, 2021 •
Updated on February 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Published February 5, 2021 •
Updated on February 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm
For the entire month of February, NBC will showcase essays about Black Americans who pioneered change in United States history during the Civil Rights Movement that led to nationwide desegregation. Pioneers include those who led local efforts to desegregate schools, professionals who forged ahead to become luminaries within their industries, and advocates who stoked the wave of change head-on in the nation s bid for racial justice and equality.
Reverend William B. Moore
We would sit at the lunch counters and say, ‘We’d like to order a burger, french fries and a Coke,’ and [the staff] said, ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ We did not get up. We did not leave.
The Fayetteville Observer
There is a cultural divide between Black and white Americans, but in the south, that divide is more blurred.
Culture, in terms of sociology, as defined by sociology associate professor Stacye Blount at Fayetteville State University, is the total way of life for people. Each group of persons has its own unique characteristics . that makes its culture different from other groups, said Blount.
During slavery, a lot of what the slaves did and created became Southern culture, from food to religion.
Francena Turner, FSU history professor said: There are ways that what we managed to make into meals has crossed and a lot of what s considered Southern culture in general is actually Black culture.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) As we enter the second month of vaccinations in Cumberland County, front line workers continue to see crucial support from local student nurses.
The Crown Complex has become the central hub for vaccine distribution for the Cumberland County Department of Public Health. There, county health nurses, the National Guard, and aspiring nurses are helping to distribute the vaccine, including Staff Sergeant Brent Crutchfield. There s six students from Campbell here, today, and we ve been rotating through the entire class of about 50 students, Crutchfield said.
Crutchfield attends Campbell University and is working to become an Army nurse. Wednesday was his first time helping administer the vaccine. To be able to give a vaccine for something that has changed the entire world is really, pretty cool.
Larry Elder
A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an “opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us.” After Biden’s election, he, Democrats and media urge a “return to civility.” But when did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return?
Let’s go to the videotape:
When Barry Goldwater accepted the 1964 Republican nomination, California’s Democratic Gov. Pat Brown said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.”
Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf. ”
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