Shirley Norris Barnes, a beacon of love, beauty, and resilience, was born October 7, 1939, in Kerr, NC. Graduating from Roseboro High School in 1957, she embarked on a life
A North Carolina hog farmer, Lauch Faircloth was a one-term Republican US senator instrumental in stripping the District of Columbia and Mayor Marion Barry of all authority to deal with an overwhelming financial crisis in 1997.
A North Carolina hog farmer and a Democrat-turned-Republican, he helped strip Mayor Marion Barry of his fiscal powers as Washington’s deficits swelled in the late ’90s.