HENDERSON — Folks might have noticed Sheriff Curtis Brame walking the several miles to Sunset Gardens, down on what is known colloquially as Old Oxford Road recently.
Deborah and Ken Ferruccio saw the toxic chemical spill while they were driving home late one summer night in 1978: a big smelly swath of brown oil on the side of the road. Reverend Willie T. Ramey saw it too. He was a pastor at two local churches and a respected community leader. And not long after that highway spill, he agreed to meet the Ferruccios just after midnight in a barn in Warren County, North Carolina. The Ferruccios told Reverend Ramey they needed his help. Someone was dumping toxic waste in their county, and they needed to organize. Today on the show: how a group of local citizens in a poor, rural, majority Black community came together to fight an iconic battle for environmental justice – and how their work laid a path that leads right up to today.
On June 25, Kaylee Evans, an enrolled citizen of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe in Hollister, was elected to office as the secretary for the Executive Board of the North Carolina
The Ladies of the Lake Cancer Support Team received a donation last week that has special meaning for Heather Abbott, general manager/advertising executive of the Lake Gaston Gazette Observer and
On March 29, history was made in Warren County when President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill into law. Everyone is asking the question: “How, how can Warren