Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
This conversation is free and open to the public. The event will be held in Hyde Hall at the Institute for Arts and Humanities. For parking suggestions, please visit this page. Jon Parrish Peede is Chairman of the National Endowment for … Read more
“Free-Market Activists and School Desegregation” Suppose that something long understood as an ending was really a beginning. What if the white South’s massive resistance to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision proved to be not just the … Read more
"The Hamlet Fire: Business, Politics, and Eating in the Age of Reagan" In September 1991, the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, North Carolina exploded in flames. Twenty-five people lost their lives in the blaze; most were trapped inside the … Read more
“The Evidence of Things Done: Social (In)Justice & Struggles in the 21st Century” Through a blending of prose and poetics and historical and contemporary times, Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams will bear witness to the representations, politics, and activist campaigns that … Read more
The Eighth Annual Conference of the Triangle African American History Colloquium will focus on "The Place of Education in African American History and Culture." Martha Biondi of Northwestern University will provide the keynote address on February 28 at 5:00 pm … Read more