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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 has provided pastoral care to George Floyd’s family the past several months. Drumwright, who leads ...

Autopsy confirms Fred Cox died from bullet wounds The official release of Fred Cox's 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 Chief Medical Examiner. The report, according to the family, largely corroborates their depiction of e...

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.  Wednesday's 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 Budd's offices to vocalize a series of demands which included the immediate removal of Trump from office, the arrest of those individuals who took part in last Wednesday's Capitol Hill march an...

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 group's Instagram page.  Occupy Graham began protesting late last week at Wyatt Outlaw Park. The group intends to gather at Wyatt Outlaw ...

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, it's 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. “We're in a pandemic and if there's judicial proceedings, there's got to be a way for the public to see them, and the press is the public's surrogates in most cases." Reporters were turned away from Di...