Biden & Trump Talk Tribal Recognition -Puts Robeson Co. on Map Historian and Lumbee Tribe Member Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery Looks at Big Picture President Trump drew a crowd to his recent rally in Lumberton, N.C., including members of the … Read more

    Closed captions available on YouTube; transcriptions coming soon. Oct. 3 Keynote We kicked off our month-long celebration of Ida B. Wells on October 3, 2020 with a panel discussion featuring veteran journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones (2020 Pulitzer Prize recipient), … Read more

Election 2020 voting is under way in North Carolina. Our special episode of the Southern Futures Podcast takes a look at this contested element of our democracy. Struggle and a tradition of resistance are part of the history of voting … Read more

Question: What are the origins of Columbus Day, and how did it become a holiday? Lowery: Benjamin Harrison was president between 1889 and 1893, and he first proposed that we as a nation celebrate Christopher Columbus. Some local communities had … Read more

Please join us in a virtual book launch for Tyree Daye’s second collection Cardinal, from Copper Canyon Press, featuring the poet Nabila Lovelace. Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”—the travel-cum-survival guide for African American … Read more