Source: Tammy Grubb, HERALD SUN, 3/16/21

As school districts and communities across North Carolina remove names rooted in white supremacy from public spaces, Orange County is naming its new agricultural center for a Black woman who broke racial barriers while working to improve the community. On Tuesday, county commissioners voted unanimously to name a new Environmental and Agricultural Center in honor of Bonnie Bedal Briley Davis. Davis was Orange County’s first Black agricultural extension agent ...

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