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Breaking Barriers | Now Available on Video

October 7, 2020

If you missed the conversation, you can watch it now. Panelists explored the fight for the right to vote by women of color. The Center for the Study of the American South was proud to co-sponsor this Sept. 27, 2020 … Read more

Voices of Resilience and Recovery in Robeson County

September 30, 2020

  Article by Kim Weaver Spurr ’88 Diamond Holloman is fascinated with what she calls the “sister concepts of vulnerability and resilience” that she has witnessed firsthand among the people of Robeson County, North Carolina. Hurricanes Matthew in 2016 and … Read more

Something in Common | Ida B. Wells

September 28, 2020

From journalists, to historians, to high school students and their teachers, in October we will host six virtual events featuring discussions and presentations about close examination of our nation’s history- hard history- and the importance of investigative journalism. Register, below, … Read more

#ScholarStrike Conversations | Reframing 1619 & Contesting Sovereignty

September 28, 2020

Conversations with Mark Simpson-Vos & Malinda Maynor Lowery   September 8-9, 2020 university professors, instructors, and students nationwide participated in a Scholar Strike to protest racial injustice. The strike disrupted the “normal” workday during the abnormality of life in COVID-19. … Read more