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Juanita Wilson / Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, NC Six months ago, as part of a reckoning on racial injustice, the City of Asheville and Buncombe County both passed resolutions to consider reparations to the Black community as a way to begin making amends for slavery and generations of systemic discrimination. The votes were hailed as “historic” by The Asheville Citizen Times, and ABC News asked, “Is Asheville a national model?” Since then, local officials concede, little has been done. Some in the Black community see zero progress. “Fro...

Asheville might keep slaveowner names on streets with businesses; city waiting on public input ASHEVILLE - Businesses may not be affected by a move to change city street names linked to slaveholders, a key city official said. Facing questions about costs that businesses would incur after a street renaming proposal stemming from summer Black Lives Matter protests, city Development Services Director Ben Woody told the Council of Independent Business Owners Jan. 15 to "not necessarily assume that that's going to be an issue." That could be because only new streets are affected or renaming is...

5:09 Seven Black women in Asheville are offering up their personal stories in honor of Kwanzaa, the weeklong celebration of African-American heritage.  The online event called "Black Starseed" was organized by adé PROJECT, a collective of local artists of color. adé PROJECT founder Cortina Jenelle Caldwell says the concept was born out of a painful year.  "One of the greatest harms and one of the most difficult things about the state we found ourselves in 2020, and therefore this summer, is we weren’t fully seeing each other," Jenelle Caldwell said. "Black Starseed became a response t...