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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. Scholars hosted livestream panels and shared social media messages using…

“The Center for the Study of the American South has been the setting where I can clearly see the intersecting points between the past and the present, between scholarship and transforming ideas into action.”   Sydney Simpson-Vos, Jordan High School Senior (Durham Public Schools)   Much to our delight, during the…

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 United States, particularly their efforts to combat and abate White…

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 event. 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment…

“People don’t get lost. They get murdered, they get stolen, they get taken in. They live and die as members of other communities.” Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery in NY Times   Lost? In a New York Times article about the “Lost Colony,” UNC Historian and Lumbee Tribe member Dr. Malinda…

PRESENTER BIOS  Nikole Hannah-Jones is a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, focusing on racial injustice, and is a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society. She is also the architect of the New York Times “1619 Project,” for which she received a 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She has written…

2020 Census and You   Taking the time to accurately respond to the Census is critical for our local community and state. Your response impacts funding allocations for schools, roads and other resources like federal grant and aid programs. Results also decide North Carolina’s number of seats in the U.S….

How communities record climate change   Working with communities, building trusts with residents, learning their historical knowledge  – these are all critical to understanding climate change and how diverse communities in the U.S. South are responding. Professor in UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art and dramaturg, Jacqueline Lawton joins other scholars…

Throughout October 2020 WATCH THE KEYNOTE AND ALL COMPLETED SERIES EVENTS HERE More than a century after she began her journalistic work, Ida B. Wells was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. To celebrate the life and work of of this pioneering Black journalist, advocate and educator, the Center…

Washington Post Essay by Malinda Maynor Lowery “Race and exploitation are key to understanding our past.” In this Washington Post essay, UNC historian and Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery explains why move to keep the “1619 Project” out of history…