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Black firefighters in NC allege racism amid larger reckoning

by Tom Foreman Jr.
| November 28, 2020 6:12 AM

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much for Timika Ingram to bear.

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