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Building Business BY ANNA-RHESA VERSOLA
About 120 civic and business leaders stood for the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center in Pittsboro on Feb. 3 during “The State of Black Entrepreneurship in Rural NC.” The assembly listened to Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, a former president of the League of Women Voters, present compiled data describing the 4
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1 Africa Mason and Ally DeJong. 2 Robert Logan and Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins. 3 O’Neill D’Cruz and Irene D’Cruz. 4 Karinda Roebuck and Rachel Winters. 5 Chantal Stevens. 10
CHATHAM MAGAZINE
APRIL/MAY 2023