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After a career in the NFL as center for the St. Louis Rams, Jason Brown decided to settle back down in Louisburg, North Carolina and set up his farm. Since 2012, he has produced thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes and donated them to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina for food pantries and after-school programs.
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After serving in the military and struggling to adjust to civilian life, John Mahshie started a 10-acre farm in Henderson County, North Carolina. The Veterans Healing Farm is harvested by other veterans who volunteer their time and donate every Tuesday’s crop to the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville.
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42763
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Princeville, the oldest town chartered by Blacks in America has suffered much in the way of flooding, particularly in the past 20 years with Hurricanes Floyd and Mathew. A group of students with North Carolina State University's School of Architecture and Design have come up with a way to assist the town in keeping a museum with the use of a steel mobile structure designed for self-guided tours.
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The James E. Cheek Learning Resource Center on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh holds an interesting archive concerning the school's past. Henry M. Tupper founded the institution shortly after the Civil War in 1865. Ella Baker, the First Lady of Gospel music was a graduate of Shaw. Another institution, North Carolina A&T University began on the Shaw campus in 1891, later moving to Greensboro, N.C. where it is now the nation's largest HBCU.
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"On a sprawling farm in rural Northampton County, a young Black farmer-entrepreneur is teaching people the value of an ancient agricultural tradition with deep, dark roots." Julius Tillery is owner of Black Cotton, a company that takes his own cotton production to make intricately designed art, decorative wreaths, tree ornaments, arrangements, totes, and accessories. Tillery received the William C. Friday award in 2021 for his efforts towards empowerment. Of more than 46,000 farms in North Carolina, only three percent are owned by black farmers.
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