A plan to reimagine the Durham Freeway is reopening old wounds for many longtime Hayti residents who say the construction of NC 147 forever changed their community.
Eighty-seven-year-old Melvin Speight remembers watching businesses and homes disappear as the freeway was built through the heart of Durham’s historic Black neighborhood.
“If you look at the whole design of the expressway, they built the center and erased us,” Speight said…