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One afternoon in mid-July, hundreds of people gathered around a stage in front of the historic gray stone courthouse at the heart of the small town of Graham, North Carolina. They were listening to a song of protest.
“We don’t want to die,” a local musician sang out to the diverse crowd.
The group wanted the removal of a marble statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood watch over the town square since white citizens of Alamance County erected it in 1914. But protesters in this central North Carolina county seat were seeking much more.
Wow. Thank you for posting this, particularly the wonderful arrival video. So many good things are happening since January 20th. Such a huge relief.
I read in the comments here criticism of the media and how the reporters are trying to drum up controversies when there are essentially none right now. I do think that those criticisms are well deserved. But the games that they play now in their media outlets are
nothing like what would have been happening 24/7 if TFG had his twitter and facebook accounts right now. The media focus would be on TFG 24/7 and each and every media outlet would be hanging on his every tweet and post as though he was tweeting out real issues and not his usual outrageous lies.
With Christmas near and a New Year beckoning, we at the NC Local News Workshop celebrate the many ways local journalists and media helped people in our state understand and navigate unprecedented challenges in 2020.
In the year of COVID-19, we’ve seen North Carolina residents actively involved in local democracy in countless ways, including high levels of election participation, protests, community responses to the pandemic, and initiatives to address racial inequity.
Our local journalists and media organizations have worked ceaselessly, and often in creative and inventive ways, to inform their communities, even as they faced their own hardships, financial challenges, and family stresses.