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.
“From my understanding, they’ve done nothing,” said Rob Thomas, community liaison for the Racial Justice Coalition.
Amid sex assault allegations, Asheville School alumni call for school head, board chair to resign Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
Three of the first women to graduate from Asheville School are demanding that the head of school and the head of the board of trustees mitigate mistakes in the handling of a recent alleged assault case or resign their positions.
Victoria Jayne, of Hickory, and two of her classmates – Janis Pulley and Frannie Doloboff Miller – from the distinguished class of 1974, sent letters to head of school Anthony Sgro and board chair Walter Cox Jr. on Dec. 22, expressing outrage at how the school handled the Title IX investigation into claims by Agnes Hill, now 17, that she was sexually assaulted as a freshman by an older male student. Jayne, an attorney, also reveals in her letter that she, too, was the victim of an alleged sexual assault while attending Asheville School.
'There is still good in the world' Holiday relief efforts provide food, gifts for families my40.tv - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from my40.tv Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.