The Community Remembrance Coalition-Chatham (CRC-C) announced the organization received a $25,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation. The grant was presented Dec. 6.
“This generous grant supports has focused on the Black history of Chatham County, its challenges and its accomplishments,” according to CRC-C President Mary Nettles. “Funding from Duke Energy Foundation will allow us to make a significant step forward in our work of conveying the scope and value of the county’s history with the stories and lives of Black Chathamites who have enriched our culture in faith, in community service and in business.
"Through our truth, justice and reconciliation mural and other programs and projects, the white and Black communities are working together for the common good of Chatham County.”
The grant will be used to create a mural in Pittsboro of the life of the Pittsboro Black Community, support a videography project of the work of CRC-C in telling the Black history of Chatham and help with the Equal Justice Initiative and community outreach programs to promote truth, justice and reconciliation in Chatham County.