A murder 50 years ago rattled Chapel Hill’s Black community, laying bare the town’s inequality. Stabbed by white supremacists, Cates died in the Pit on UNC campus waiting for an ambulance that never arrived. The bricks were cleaned by the … Read more

UPDATE: If you missed this conversation, it’s not too late!       Join us for a conversation about the creation of memories in public space and the power of art in the public sphere. We will be speaking with … Read more

We shall endure / To steal your senses / In that lonely twilight / Of your winter’s grief. — Pauli Murray, To the Oppressors, 1939. A Southern Cultures‘ article written by Hilary N Green.

WUNC has a new podcast about the power of one person to change what’s possible for us all. That person is Pauli Murray. WUNC coordinated with Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) Director Dr. Seth Kotch to incorporate clips of Murray’s … Read more

Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery and Dr. Arwin Smallwood 7 p.m. | Sept. 24 | Live Here Dr. Erin Smallwood and Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery explore and discuss the shared histories and experiences of American Indians and African Americans in the … Read more