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Ashamed to have Roy Cooper as governor

August 29, 2017fbpowellNC History, News

By Chris Roberts Today I read the comments of Roy Cooper and it is the most heartbreaking and despicable comment ever to be uttered by a governor of North Carolina. Your call for the removal of monuments to the Confederate soldiers from North Carolina is beyond belief. These are NOT monuments to those as you…

Law enforcement fiddles as Durham falls

August 18, 2017fbpowellNews

By Dr. Boyd D. Cathey There is much more on both Charlottesville and the destruction of the Confederate soldiers’ statue in Durham in the news, and certainly, most will have read these reports. Belatedly, the Durham County Sheriff’s Department made an arrest of the most egregious perpetrator of the Durham vandalism whom they managed to…