/tags/brightwood Brightwood en-US Copyright Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:37:33 GMT /race-demographics/2020-12-21/a-black-economic-development-zone-grows-in-rural-durham-county Activist Skip Gibbs was in the midst of leading a protest in Durham this summer when he felt that something wasn’t right. In the crowd, which had gathered… Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:37:33 GMT /race-demographics/2020-12-21/a-black-economic-development-zone-grows-in-rural-durham-county Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /news/2020-12-11/from-protest-camp-to-permanent-settlement-building-an-autonomous-black-community-in-rural-durham On a crisp fall morning, Skip Gibbs of the group Other America Movement is alone, listening to Thelonious Monk, and tending to the garden."In these little… Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:16:18 GMT /news/2020-12-11/from-protest-camp-to-permanent-settlement-building-an-autonomous-black-community-in-rural-durham Will Michaels