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Mike Pence in Heritage Foundation’s
The Daily Signal slamming HR1 is nothing more than a dog whistle message to Trump supporters that he will continue the “big lie” that somehow the 2020 election was rife with fraud and voting irregularities, and that election reform should not include protecting the voting rights of Black and Brown voters.
Fayetteville State University students get off a Black Votes Matter bus at Smith Recreation Center on March 3, 2020 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)
This should come as no surprise to anyone. This is the modern GOP’s playbook. It is all they have left. They are a shrinking, conspiracy-driven party of mostly white anger and grievance. That’s not me being dismissive; I grew up with working-class whites my entire life. My parents were working-class Blacks. This mythological wedge that the GOP has created between Black and white people in our country is sad because the reality is that we have
The Fayetteville Observer
Police have identified a man who was found dead in a backyard on Slater Avenue early Tuesday and said a second man died after being shot.
Officers were called to the house on the 1800 block of the street just before 12:15 a.m. Tuesday after shots were reportedly fired in the area, according to a statement released by the Fayetteville Police Department. Trevonte Dawaine Parker, 24, of the 1100 block of Armadillo Drive, died. He had multiple gunshot wounds, the statement said.
Officers were still on the scene when they were notified that another shooting victim had arrived at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center by personal vehicle. Cortez Shadique Robinson, 20, of the 100 block of Hillview Avenue, had a gunshot wound to the chest and died while in surgery, according to the statement.
Hundreds of cars filled the parking lot waiting for the mass food distribution to begin. I ve been unemployed since the beginning of the pandemic. It s been really rough, said Latonya Dunlap, a Fayetteville mother of three.
Dunlap was out the door by 6 a.m. to be first in line. She was evicted this year and said it s been a trying time for her family as two of her daughters have been in and out of the hospital. When asked how she s made it through the year, she said she s barely survived. Literally prayer. My unemployment ran out and there s just no other assistance, said Dunlap.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) The Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina, in Cumberland County, has kept busy in 2020, working to provide food for thousands in the Sandhills. People are really struggling, and it s people you ve never seen before coming to a pantry, said Food Bank Director David Griffin.
Griffin told ABC11 their nonprofit has helped 40 percent more people this year. It s been a challenge, but a challenge that we welcome, because that s a part of our mission.
With the increase in demand, the food bank has needed to heavily rely on their current funds and the countless generous donors who have helped them distribute food across the southeast region.