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Black Wide-Awake @scuffalong

North Cack native. Roots digger. Documentarian of the Black lives and times of Wilson County NC. #BlackWideAwake #BlackTwitterstorian #OnePlaceStudy #DBH

Joined October 2013
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15 days, 4 calls and an email later, @ghbass STILL hasn’t sent a return slip for an order THEY screwed up. RUN ME MY MONEY.
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Y’all heard that little bit of #Triggerman at the start of @JonBatiste ‘s national anthem?!?! #doitfortheculture #blackityblack #SuperBowl
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Hell hath no fury like @DIRECTV scorned. Stop fcking calling me.
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#Olympic “breaking.” They not like us.
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Is @gstephanop interviewing or staging an intervention?
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Snaps, no. 107: the widow Argie Croom Savage and her loves.

There is no contest, but this is surely the most heartbreaking photograph I’ve encountered in my Black Wide-Awake research. Jesse Savage and Argie Croom married in 1913 and quickly had two da…

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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/10/06/…. @cityofrockymtnc #saveblackcemeteries

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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/08/31/… #BlackLove #Resistance #runawayslave
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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/07/02/… #sugarlandpodcast #convictleasing #africanamericancemeteries #historicpreservation @npr

Podcast recommendation: Sugar Land.

An impassioned, but disrespected, community advocate; an abandoned cemetery filled with unmarked graves of African-Americans; historic racism; frustratingly opaque government response. There’…

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@SugarLandPod thanks for the like. Y’all inspire me endlessly in my fight to get my NC hometown to tell the truth about a Black public cemetery it neglected for decades, then bulldozed. #lanestreetproject #vickcemetery
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Lane Street Project: WRAL-TV reports on Vick Cemetery.

WRAL’s report on Vick Cemetery aired today, and it did not disappoint! Thank you, reporter Matt Talhelm, for pursuing the story and for centering a jewel of our community, Mrs. Henrietta Hine…

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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/07/14/… Kudos @cityofrockymtnc Pay attention @WilsonNC

Lane Street Project: well, now, look at Rocky Mount.

Wilson keeps taking L’s when it comes to preservation of historic African-American cemeteries. I’d thought the City could seize this opportunity to be a leader in honest, enlightened ap…

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Hey @PiedmontNG skip to 9:55 if you don’t care about the whole story afamwilsonnc.com/2023/07/13/…

Lane Street Project: why we need a survey map, part 2.

Take a walk with me. This obviously was done in one take, so a few clarifications: Estimating the height of the pole does not involve “triangulation.” But it’s definitely math. I …

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Hey @PiedmontNG Here’s another African American grave your pipeline’s probably on top of in @WilsonNC #vickcemetery
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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/07/09/… @visitecity @WilsonNC

Lane Street Project: kudos to Elizabeth City.

Another city doing it better than Wilson — Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Thirteen-acre Oak Grove cemetery was founded about 1886 as a burial ground for African-Americans. The City of Elizab…

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Hey @PiedmontNG did you know graves have been found over a pipeline you maintain in @WilsonNC ? #vickcemetery #saveblackcemeteries
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afamwilsonnc.com/2023/06/30/… @WilsonNC @NewSouthAssoc #africanamericancemeteries #historicpreservation

Lane Street Project: the return of New South Associates.

Yesterday morning, I sent the mayor, all council members, a department head, and the communications director an email that read in pertinent part: As usual, I received no acknowledgment of even rec…

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