Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham County,North Carolina,United States. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census,making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill and Durham make up the Durham-Chapel Hill,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area,which had an estimated population of 608,879 in 2023. When it's combined with Raleigh,the state capital,they make up the corners of the Research Triangle,which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County,North Carolina,United States. Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers,it is the most populous city in Western North Carolina,and the state's 11th-most-populous city. According to the 2020 census,the city's population was 94,589,up from 83,393 in the 2010 census. It is the principal city in the three-county Asheville metropolitan area,which had an estimated population of 417,202 in 2023.
Anna Louise Day Hicks was an American politician and lawyer from Boston,Massachusetts,best known for her staunch opposition to desegregation in Boston public schools,and especially to court-ordered busing,in the 1960s and 1970s. A longtime member of Boston's school board and city council,she served one term in the United States House of Representatives,succeeding Speaker of the House John W. McCormack.
Patsy Rouzer Keever is a North Carolina educator and Democratic politician.
Howard Nathaniel Lee is an American politician who served as Mayor of Chapel Hill,North Carolina,from 1969 to 1975. He was the first African-American mayor elected in Chapel Hill,and the first African American to be elected mayor of any majority-white city in the South.
Joyce Dugan is an American educator,school administrator,and politician;she served as the 24th Principal Chief of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (1995-1999),based in Western North Carolina. She was the first woman to be elected to this office,and as of 2024 the only one.
Robyn Tomlin is an American journalist who has been the executive editor of The News &Observer,in Raleigh,N.C. and The Herald-Sun,in Durham,N.C. since February 2018. She is also the Carolinas Regional Editor for the McClatchy company. In addition to Raleigh and Durham,she oversees newsrooms in Charlotte,N.C.,Columbia,S.C.,Rock Hill,S.C.,Myrtle Beach,S.C.,Hilton Head,S.C.,and Beaufort,S.C. She previously served at the VP/managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. She was also the founding editor of Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome in New York,NY
Terry M. Bellamy is the former mayor of Asheville,North Carolina. She was first elected to the Asheville City Council in 1999 and won re‑election in 2003. She was elected mayor in November 2005,defeating incumbent Mayor Charles Worley in the October primary. Bellamy became the youngest mayor in North Carolina at the age of 33 and the first African-American Mayor of Asheville. Bellamy,a Democrat,received 10,534 votes (56.8%) to opponent Joe Dunn's 8,004 votes (43.2%). She won re-election in 2009. Bellamy chose not to run for another term in 2013,but instead announced plans to run for the U.S. House of Representatives for a second time.
Cecil Bothwell is an American politician,writer,artist,musician and builder. Bothwell was elected to the Asheville,North Carolina city council in 2009 and reelected in 2013,but lost in the 2017 primary,coming in 7th out of 12 candidates.
Jyles Jackson Coggins was an American real estate developer and politician who served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate. He served as the Mayor of Raleigh,North Carolina from 1975 until 1977.
Beth Dail Finch was an American politician and businessperson. Finch served as the first female Mayor of Fayetteville,North Carolina,from 1975 to 1981. She is the only woman to hold that office as of 2021.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Asheville,North Carolina,USA.
Stephen M. Schewel is an American politician,businessman,and academic. A Democrat,he is the former Mayor of Durham,North Carolina and formerly served on the Durham City Council and as the Vice Chair of the Durham Public School Board. Schewel is also a faculty member at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a former faculty member at North Carolina Central University. He founded the weekly newspaper Indy Week in 1983,and served as its president until he sold the paper in 2012. In 2010 he co-founded the Hopscotch Music Festival.
Stormie Denise Forte is an American lawyer,radio host,and politician. She is the first African-American woman to serve on the Raleigh City Council. She was appointed to the council on July 14,2020 and represents District D,which encompasses Southwest Raleigh. On July 8,2022,Stormie filed to run for Raleigh's at-large district in the 2022 Raleigh election.
Ruth Dial Woods was an American educator and activist. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina,she was the first woman to serve as the associate superintendent of the Robeson County Public Schools and to receive an at-large appointment to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. After teaching in the public school system of Robeson County for 27 years,she joined the faculty at Fayetteville State University. In addition to her work as an educator,Woods was involved in the Civil Rights Movement,the Women's liberation movement,and the American Indian Movement. She has served as a community development consultant for the United States Department of Labor and as a consultant for the Lumbee Tribal Council for administration of tribal programs. The recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work in human rights and education,in 2011,she was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame.
Nida Allam is a Canadian-American politician,political activist,and data analyst. She currently serves on the Durham County Board of Commissioners,to which she was elected in 2020,making her the first Muslim woman to serve in public office in North Carolina. Allam is one of five women to serve on the Durham County Board of Commissioners;this is the first time the board has consisted entirely of women in its 139-year history.
Caleb Rudow is an American politician serving as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 116th district. He was appointed on February 1,2022,succeeding Susan Fisher.
The Scattered Nation is a controversial speech by the U.S. Senator,Confederate officer,and slaveowner Zebulon Baird Vance,written sometime between 1868 and 1870. The speech praises the accomplishments of Jewish people,crediting Jews for much of what Vance considered great in Western civilization. Particular praise in reserved for white Jews of Central and Western European descent,while Black people and Jews of color are disparaged as culturally and racially inferior. Vance was a prominent defender of Jews during a time when antisemitism was common in the American South. While positively remembered for decades by the North Carolina Jewish community,Vance's reputation has declined in recent years due to his racism,support for slavery and the Confederacy,and promotion of Jewish stereotypes.
Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE) is a coalition of U.S. mayors committed to paying reparations to African American citizens of their cities. The association was announced on June 18,2021,in commemoration of the first federally recognized Juneteenth holiday. Mayors from such large municipalities as Los Angeles,Denver,Sacramento,and Kansas City are part of the coalition,as well as the mayor of the small town of Tullahassee,Oklahoma,with a population of 83.
