Barbara Booth Powell began her tenure on Chapel Hill Town Council in 1992. A former Assistant Principal at Guy B. Phillips Junior High School, Booth later served as a community development specialist in state government.  A 1955 graduate of Lincoln High School, Powell often stood in support of Chapel Hill’s lowest paid workers, assisted residents of the Northside and Pine …

Bynum & Susie Weaver were pillars of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro African American community, owning three “social enterprises” before the term existed. From a grocery store to funeral services, the Weavers’ businesses provided much needed goods and services to the community, regardless of people’s ability to pay. The couple owned the Chapel Hill Funeral Home and Ambulance Service, Weaver’s Grocery, and …