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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11 s month-long look at the past, present and future of Black history continues with an exploration of redlining and how the foundation of housing inequity was built here at home. In Durham, part of that story can be told through ABC11 Anchor Joel Brown s very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durham s Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie Smith Vample. All of them are descendants of Walltown s namesake, George Wall. This is your great great grandfather, George Wall and his second wife, Lily Wall, Manns-Hill said holding up a black and white photograph of Wall and his wife standing in front of his one-story wooden house with a brick chimney. The original homeplace that he built on Onslow Street when he worked at Trinity College before it became Duke University. ....
The battle boils down whether to include three concepts: Systemic Racism Gender Identity Board members supporting the proposal of the language believe the words are factual and not up for debate, saying that children need more well-rounded lessons to process historic inequities. But Robinson, the first Black person to serve as Lt. Governor in the state of North Carolina, and also sits on the state board disagrees. He believes the words could make students develop anti-American feelings. To call our system of government racist, that is an untruth as far as I m concerned. I truly believe that is an untruth as far as history is concerned and it does a disservice to our students. It puts the idea in the mind of our children that they live in a nation that has promoted racism, Robinson said on Thursday. ....
There is a battle at the North Carolina Board of Education and it's a war over words. The fight is political and boils down to verbiage that would be used in social studies standards. ....