The Pettis County NAACP and Burns Chapel Free Will Baptist Church are switching it up this year.
Instead of focusing on black historical figures such as Rosa Parks or Harriet Tubman, they’re looking to more recent history — Rodney King, Trayvon Martin and Barack Obama.
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