Please join us in the Freedom Forum on Tuesday, November 18 at 4:30 pm for a panel discussion, using documentary films as the starting point for a larger conversation about how race relations have unfolded in Southern politics. Sharing clips from their … Read more

A new, free, six-week online course that explores the stories, music and art of the American South will be offered Oct. 13 to Nov. 28, developed and taught by the Center’s Senior Associate Director, William R. Ferris, in conjunction with … Read more

On Friday, July 11, the 2014 Moxie Scholars presented a short video, a group mural, and an interactive dialogue with participants from the summer seminar. These six undergraduates discussed their internships with community organizations in the Triangle area, as well … Read more

Available for download now on your favorite eReader via SouthernCultures.org/BF20. Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in Southern Cultures for nearly … Read more

Senior Associate Director Bill Ferris spent much of December in France with his latest book, Les Voix du Mississippi, a French translation of his work on blues from the Mississippi Delta. In Les Voix and on an accompanying DVD, Ferris presents interviews with … Read more