Enfield Mayor Robinson to Speak at Durham’s First “State of the South” Conference
Mondale Robinson, the Enfield mayor who garnered nationwide attention and death threats after toppling over a decades-old Confederate monument in his town, will be one of the featured speakers at a two-day “State of the South” conference this week in Durham. Robinson is the fiery, newly-elected mayor who in September asked the governor and state attorney general […]
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Black Mayor Removes Confederate Statue, Death Threats Follow
This month, a fiery newly elected Black mayor called on North Carolina governor Roy Cooper to declare a state of emergency in his overwhelmingly Black town of less than 3,000 residents in the eastern part of the state. Enfield mayor Mondale Robinson says he was targeted with death threats from the Ku Klux Klan soon […]
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Darryl Howard Asks Durham City Council to Reconsider Paying Him $6 Million Awarded by Grand Jury | #citycouncil
Darryl Howard was wrongly convicted in 1995 and spent decades in prison for two murders he did not commit. Early Thursday afternoon, Howard implored city council members to revisit their decision to not honor a federal jury’s decision last year to pay him $6 million for the wrongful conviction. Howard, dressed in black trousers and […]
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