As the festival kicks off its 46th year of celebration on Sept. 28 with a few new additions — including a Youth Creation Station, a pre-parade breakfast, and an art exhibit highlighting pieces from both national and international Latinx artists displayed in the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County — festival contributors and showrunners have pulled out all the stops to make this a celebration like no other.
Allison Underwood
Allison Underwood is a CityView correspondent.
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A distinctive melody
The year was 1997 and Rev. Bernard Hayes felt a calling within him to grow in ministry, but he wasn’t quite sure where to begin. He decided to break away from his home church, Savannah Missionary Baptist Church, and explore other forms of ministry in Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville Civil War history center presents annual lecture honoring Juneteenth
The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville is presenting on Monday its 6th commemoration of Juneteenth with the annual Hari Jones Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture will be given by Leesa Jones, co-founder and curator of the Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum in Washington, North Carolina. The face behind […]
