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February 9, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m. – Screening of Mississippi Masala, as part of the Ackland Museum Film Forum and the Center’s Southern Film Series. Free for students with a valid ID and $4 for the general public.

Loving Then and Now: The Context and Impact of a Landmark Civil Rights Opinion Please join us on March 1, 2012, for a screening of The Loving Story (77 min.) at the Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill. On March 2, The Center for the Study of the American South, with support…

On February 29, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., please join us at Person Hall on the UNC Campus for Raising the Roof Gospel featuring New Sons of New Bethel and the Branchettes. New Sons of New Bethel The New Sons of New Bethel capture both the sweetness of close harmony and the intensity…

MARCH 29, 2012: KIM ARRINGTON, ERIC HIRSH, AND PETER LAMB Kim Arrington sang publicly at 4 years old.  By 7 years old, Kim was writing her own songs.  In May 2008, Kim released her debut CD of soul music, “First Love Note of Kim Arrington”, which she describes as “the times…

Music on the Porch is the Center for the American South’s outdoor music series, which is held four or five times a year. It brings talented, knowledgeable, and eclectic musicians from around the region together to play and engage in discussion about a “Southern” sense of place, the creative process,…

On Tuesday, January 24th, please join us at 5:30 pm, at the Center, for a reception to celebrate the opening of South Carolina textile artist Ellen Kochansky’s exhibition, “Illumination”, which will be hanging in the Love House gallery through April. There will also be a special musical performance by members of the New Music…

“Through Their Lens: Understanding and Advocating for Health Equity” 4:30 pm Kresge Foundation Common Room (039), Graham Memorial Hall Free and Open to the Public Dr. Corbie-Smith is co-director of the Program on Health Disparities at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and principal investigator of…

Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith Through Their Lens: Understanding and Advocating for Health Equity (1/19/12) from CSAS on Vimeo. Dr. Corbie-Smith is co-director of the Program on Health Disparities at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Among other projects, she is principal investigator of Project GRACE, a community-based…

Ellis Anderson – The Other Katrina (12/1/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Memoirist Ellis Anderson spoke about her book Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), which takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina in this small Mississippi town. In…

A Radical Notion of Democracy Closing Keynote with Blair Kelley (11/4/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Blair Kelley is an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University. In Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of  Plessy v. Ferguson (2010), she examines some of…