Huge Confederate flag in NC now has a neighbor -- a Black Lives Matter billboard [View all]

A Confederate battle flag in North Carolina now has a Black Lives Matter billboard beside it.

Drivers can see the new sign along the U.S. Highway 64 East business route in Pittsboro, according to a GoFundMe page that says it raised money for the project.

“Shoutouts To The Community Of Pittsboro That Came Together To Make This Happen,” Kerwin Pittman, founder and director of Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services, wrote Monday on Facebook.

The billboard, which will be up for a year, features the words “Black Lives Matter” and was “paid for by RREPS & Emancipate NC,” according to photos Pittman shared with McClatchy News. He said he has worked alongside people in the community, who chose the messaging.

Read more: https://www.heraldsun.com/news/state/north-carolina/article244242947.html
(Durham Herald Sun)


A Black Lives Matter billboard went up next to a Confederate flag in North Carolina. KERWIN PITTMAN