Friday, August 1- Archives

"This entire week we’ve been hearing people—real live people who lived thru traumatic times—discuss how they spent their lives fighting for their people and struggling for their rights. Sitting there, I couldn’t help but think of last year at Wake, when graffiti aimed at homosexuals appeared on campus. No one is immune from this hate—we can’t even hide in the little bubble of Wake Forest. " <Read All>


"Emotions are hard. Today I saw a young man cry, but I saw it through blurry eyes. The pictures were too much for us. The bodies of the young men hanging from the trees will be forever burned into my memory. I can’t describe it. We all stood in a dark room, in a house on a street that was prominent in the slave trade... " <Read All >
Devonda Burton at the National Civil Rights Memorial
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