We’ve got 365 new days to make things happen, folks. In memory and honor of the 4,224 — upward and onward!
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Some 2023 Black-Wide Awake stats:
889 posts (an increase of 13% from 2022)
220,199 views (a 5% increase)
102,980 visitors (an 18% increase)
1,037,638 all-time views
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5 most popular posts:
wide-a-wa-ake-love-the-wilson-county-roots-of-tupac-shakur (originally posted 2018)
the-dardens-buy-another-lot-on-pender-street
the-ellis-familys-community-of-enslaved-people (originally posted 2019)
a-road-trip-to-an-edgecombe-county-historical-marker-and-a-familiar-face
william-barnes-plantation (originally posted in 2017)
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Some of my faves (in no order):
snaps-no-101-ella-goff-ward-and-fannie-ward-dixon
irene-barron-wilsons-rosa-parks
cool-off-courtesy-of-darden-sons
lane-street-project-vick-cemetery-revealed
gatseys-children-a-register-of-births-of-enslaved-children-part-1-2
lane-street-project-vick-cemetery-past-present-future
lane-street-project-pulling-back-the-curtain-at-city-hall-annotated
recommended-reading-no-15-ed-mitchells-barbeque
lane-street-project-the-reconsecration-part-1
lane-street-project-wral-tv-reports
standing-in-the-gap-for-the-ancestors-sankofa-and-the-why-of-black-wide-awake-2
SIMPLY AMAZING!!!!