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In this episode, we speak with longtime Fayetteville resident Tommie Flowers Davis about the disappearing legacy of Southeast Fayetteville’s Black community—and the movement to establish a Black Historic District before it’s too late. As a native of the neighborhood, a former educator, a developer, and a member of the Fayetteville Historic District Commission, Ms. Davis offers both personal testimony and a call to action. Through her story, we learn about the deep roots of Black families in Fayetteville, and how over time, through policies of exclusion and neglect, much of that history has been erased.
We explore how infrastructure disinvestment, zoning barriers, and city planning practices have disproportionately harmed Black residents and made it nearly impossible to access housing preservation resources. But this conversation isn’t only about what’s been lost—it’s about what remains. Ms. Davis helps us understand what it would mean to name and protect this history, not as nostalgia, but as a step toward belonging, justice, and repair in a city that still struggles to tell the full story of who built it.
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