The office of freeholder is unique to New Jersey, a title for politicians elected to one of the state’s 21 county legislative boards. It dates back to New Jersey’s original
“It’s an affirmation of the fact that there is in our nation, sadly, still evidence of racism and disrespect,” said Joseph P. Riley Jr, who was mayor of Charleston for
The killing of Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis almost immediately re-energized that movement, as demonstrators chipped away at a 52-foot Confederate obelisk in Birmingham, Ala., and toppled a statue of Jefferson