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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…

“The Shared Past and Present of Black and Indigenous People in the United States”   Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, historian and Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill, delivered the 2020 Keynote Address for the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program or MURAP 2020…

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall on Sisters and Rebels Watch the recording of Jacquelyn Dowd Hall’s discussion of her book, “Sisters and Rebels.” The presentation is part of our summer virtual book club series on race and injustice. In this UNC Professor Emerita’s novel, descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace,…

U.S. Congressman John Lewis 1940-2020 The Words of legendary Civil Rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis have and will continue to inspire us. In this 1973 interview with the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), Congressman Lewis shares the lessons his parents taught him and how that impacted his fight…

The Men Behind the Names Many campus buildings honor white supremacists, but four top the list for renaming, according to the University Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward. Susan Hudson, The Well, Friday, July 17th, 2020   While the racist and white supremacist namesakes of dozens of areas…

Special issue of Southern Cultures: Built/Unbuilt (Summer 2021) Guest Edited by Burak Erdim NC State University College of Design Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2020 Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for Built/Unbuilt, to be published Summer 2021. Imagined and built landscapes in the South are expressions of, and…