Myron B. Pitts: Robertson's negative tone helped Colvin win big

Earlier this year, Councilman Mitch Colvin learned for the first time that his great-great-grandfather, Sam Melvin, had been sold as a slave at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville.Colvin said the news, “shook me to my core.”Now Colvin, 44, is mayor-elect of the city where his great-great-grandfather was sold as chattel. He is the second African-American elected for the job, after my brother, Marshall Pitts Jr., who won in 2001.“This campaign […]