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David Straughn

David Vaughn Straughn is an accomplished actor, musician, poet, and organizer helping to build the Charlottesville chapter of Black Lives Matter (unofficial) and local resident. He is also an organizer with Solidarity Cville, and a contributing writer for Parle Magazine.

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White people who want to end gun violence need to combat white supremacy

by David Straughn March 21, 2018October 27, 2020

No one is immune to the bullets sprayed or the cars driven in the intense, seething rage of white supremacist anger at its peak. No one is safe. When white supremacy prevails, we all suffer.

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I witnessed terrorism in Charlottesville from a foot away

by David Straughn August 16, 2017October 1, 2020

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