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The only black woman on the North Carolina Historical Commission, which oversees the removal or altering of historical monuments on state property. She is a professor of women’s studies and director of Africana Women’s Studies at Greensboro’s Bennett College. She is chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission.

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NC’s Sole Black Woman Historical Commissioner: Confederate Statues Don’t Belong at State Capitol

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