Historic Latta Plantation
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One day after a Historic Latta Plantation Juneteenth event listing was removed from the website and condemned by local government officials as inappropriate and racist, the historic site manager posted a 1,348-word statement defending the program as educational about Reconstruction.
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North Carolinians in airports, buses and train stations will need to remain masked at all times until at least July 30 under a new executive order issued on Friday.
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A racist description of an event planned at Latta Plantation on Juneteenth has been removed from the historic site's website and social media, and condemned by Mecklenburg County and the Park and Recreation Department.
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A federal judge on Friday declined to halt the upcoming executions of two South Carolina prisoners slated to die later this month under the state’s recently revised capital punishment law.
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This week on SouthBound, Tommy Tomlinson talks to Hilary Green, a historian who uncovered the history of how enslaved people built the University of Alabama — and what hiding history means to those of us in the present.
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Khadejeh Nikouyeh/Knikouyeh@charlotteobserver.com/The Charlotte Observer / via Gov. Roy CooperNorth Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced the "Your Shot at $1 Million" COVID-19 vaccine incentive program Thursday, a lottery that will award $1 million to four people who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus over the next three months.
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