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— Caroline Duble (@CarolineDuble) February 8, 2014
A couple of pieces from The Daily Tarheel, the student newspaper:
The Raging Grannies push for progressive issues in the Triangle area
The Raging Grannies of the Triangle region, a local chapter of a larger international organization, will be out in full force Saturday at Raleigh’s Historic Thousands on Jones Street protest, clad in flowered hats and knitted shawls. The grannies advocate for progressive issues like women’s rights, education reform, racial equality and environmental protection.
“We are so frustrated by having to do this all over again,” said Vicki Ryder, a 71-year-old member of the Raging Grannies, who remembers marching for civil rights and advocating for safe, legal abortions. “We feel like we’re just being dragged back 50 years – and walking backwards is not a happy walk.”
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Rev. Barber becomes the face of the Moral Monday movement
When the Rev. William Barber II was 5 years old, he remembers his mother crying, bent over a black-and-white television screen, and his father returning from work stricken with tears.
He later learned that his parents were grieving the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
It is his only memory from the civil rights era, the decade that Barber missed, as he was born two days after the 1963 March on Washington.
But now, 50 years later, Barber is the face of a new kind of civil rights movement – Moral Mondays. He’s the president of the state branch of the NAACP, and has orchestrated statewide demonstrations that have steadily gained momentum, culminating in the march that will encompass downtown Raleigh on Saturday.
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