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Black Firefighters in NC Allege Racism amid Larger Reckoning | Afro

By Tom Foreman Jr. The Associated Press They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much for Timika Ingram to bear. 'It caused me […]

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