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Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson looked across the empty fields where her Southside neighborhood once thrived. “It’s all gone,” she said. “One thousand two hundred businesses and homes were lost.”
The neighborhood, where approximately half of Asheville’s Black population lived, suffered major upheaval under Asheville’s urban renewal program in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the largest urban renewal projects in the Southeastern United States.
Ndiaye Robinson’s memories of childhood delights a neighbor’s cupcakes, playing with chickens, charging up the grassy hills are tainted by sadness and umbrage at what happened. “It broke up a loving community. It tore up families,” she recalled.
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State association names West Henderson High senior Journalist of the Year
West Henderson High senior Sarah Monoson has been named the 2021 Rachel Rivers-Coffey North Carolina High School Journalist of the Year by the N.C. Scholastic Media Association.
This is the second consecutive year a student on the school s Wingspan newspaper staff has been named Journalist of the Year by the association, which is a scholarship contest.
The North Carolina Press Foundation has funded the annual scholarship award since 2001 in memory of former N.C. Press Association president Rachel Rivers-Coffey.
Monoson, 17, will receive a $3,000 scholarship and the West Henderson journalism program will get $500. The scholarship and awards will be presented during the N.C. Scholastic Media Institute.