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Durham Protesters Take Down Confederate Monument

WUNC News | By Jennifer Brookland ,
Frank Stasio
Published August 15, 2017 at 12:30 PM EDT
Durham County officials remove the Confederate statue that was pulled off its post by protestors.
LEONEDA INGE
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WUNC
Durham County officials remove the Confederate statue that was pulled off its post by protestors.

Protesters toppled a confederate monument in Durham last night. The statue came down during a demonstration against the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend.

WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks about last nights toppling of a confederate monument in Durham last night during a demonstration against the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend.

The downed monument stood in front of the old county courthouse in Durham. Host Frank Stasio talks with Jeff Tiberii, WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief, about the latest in the story.

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Jennifer Brookland
Jennifer Brookland is a temporary producer for The State of Things.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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