Flags go half-staff to honor late Rep. Annie Brown Kennedy of Winston-Salem
Annie Brown Kennedy, the first Black woman to serve in the N.C. General Assembly and a prominent local attorney, died Tuesday of natural causes. Sh...
Annie Brown Kennedy, the first Black woman to serve in the N.C. General Assembly and a prominent local attorney, died Tuesday of natural causes. She was 98. Allen Aycock, Journal Gov. Roy Cooper has ordered all U.S. and North Carolina flags at state facilities to lower their flags half-staff immediately until sunset on Friday in honor of former North Carolina House of Representative Annie Brown Kennedy, who died on Tuesday.Kennedy, of Winston-Salem, was the second Black female attorney in North Carolina and served as the first Black female presidential elector in 1976 for the state.