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While former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in the murder of George Floyd last week, the call for police reform and racial justice is far from over.
This past weekend marked the second week in a row that demonstrators gathered in Raleigh to denounce law enforcement and seek to abolish the police.
The most recent gathering was in response to the deaths of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant out of Columbus, Ohio and 42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr. out of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Both were victims of police shooting.
The shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. came just a day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd a case that inflamed nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
On Air Today: NAACP President on Floyd Trial Verdict
Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP president Dawna Jones reacts to the verdict in the George Floyd trial – and reflects on how much more remains to be done.
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Chapel Hill, Carrboro Community Honors Breonna Taylor with Candlelight Vigil
On the one year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, Chapel Hill and Carrboro community members gathered to celebrate her life, praise the efforts of Black women and advocate against racial injustice.
Organized by the youth council of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, Saturday’s vigil at the Peace and Justice Plaza on East Franklin Street featured a candlelit moment of silence, musical performances and several speakers. Many shared messages of better respecting, recognizing and protecting Black women while calling for changes to systemic racism and discrimination across the country.
Taylor, a health care worker in Louisville, Kentucky, died on March 13, 2020, after three, unannounced plainclothes police officers shot into her apartment during an investigation into a drug dealing operation. While the Louisville Metro Police Department fired one of the officers, none have been charged in Taylor’s deat
Chapel Hill Is Voting to Rezone the 1200 Block of MLK Boulevard This Week. Residents Are Asking The Town Council to Say Yes.
The 1200 and 1204 MLK land parcels, as well as the properties notified of the rezoning application.
The Tar Heel Mobile Home Park is easy to miss, whether youâre driving down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for the first time or the thousandth. Seventy-three homes are tucked behind the now-defunct Marathon gas station, obscured by dense foliage.Â
In 2018, the mobile home park and gas station were sold to Stackhouse Properties. The original owners supposedly sold it under the condition that the 73 residences would keep their spaces. To do this and make money, the group submitted rezoning requests to include a self-storage facility on the property, and open a new gas station in the old Marathon space.Â