A Pride march, a protest, and the mayor who survived it all: Revisiting a pivotal Durham moment

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A Pride march, a protest, and the mayor who survived it all: Revisiting a pivotal Durham moment

As about 80 people settled into their seats in the airy auditorium at the Durham County Library, Eddie Davis, a former City Council member and longtime teacher, scanned the crowd. Davis asked how many in the audience weren’t in Durham in 1986. Nearly half of the hands in the room shot up. Davis nodded, acknowledging that many in the audience had no firsthand knowledge of the events that unfolded that year. At the far end of the panel, former Dur…