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  TYREE DAYE’S NEW COLLECTION    CARDINAL   VIRTUAL EVENT 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…

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…

Award winning investigative journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ron Nixon and Topher Sanders kicked off the month-long Ida B. Wells symposia of six virtual event, with a Saturday, Oct. 3 Keynote. If you missed the discussion between these veteran journalists, along with moderators Dr. Joseph Jordan and Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery and…

Photos by Kristen Chavez   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 Florence two years later brought devastating…

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, for one or all six of our Ida B. Wells…

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…