“For years, no one wanted to live in this community. Now they all want to live here.” That’s what one older black woman had to say at the end of a community meeting held in Cornwallis Street Baptist Church on Saturday. The unstated corollary: And so she’s supposed to go.…
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GUEST BLOGGER: It is Africville all over again
Today I am happy to host journalist and friend Lisa Roberts’s guest blog with her take on the St Pats/Alex issue. “It is Africville all over again,” Reverend Rhonda Britton said at City Hall after council voted to approve the sale of St.
Patrick’s-Alexandra school, in the heart …