by Admin | Dec 29, 2023 | NEWS
UNC MLK Jr. Week of Celebration The MLK Jr. Week of Celebration is part of a UNC-Chapel Hill campus-wide initiative to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his legacy, and his ideals. Carolina began its celebrations of Dr. King’s life and legacy long before there was a...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | STORIES
Lillian Lee is one of those guardians of the Chapel Hill community who puts her arms around the town’s soul, holds its close and tries to protect it. And she’s done an amazing job. In 1965, during her husband Howard’s graduate school years, she joined a colleague —...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | STORIES
One of the great moments in civil rights history took place in Chapel Hill on May 6th, 1969. That’s when Howard N. Lee was elected mayor of this town. In so doing, he became the first African American elected mayor in a predominantly white southern town since...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | STORIES
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a sociologist, professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, columnist for the New York Times, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her 2017 book, Lower Ed, has been cited by influential American policymakers, among them the esteemed...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | NEWS
Writin’ Dirty: Southern Lyricism and Storytelling There’s something special about the way pen meets page down bottom. As a former Nasir Jones Fellow with Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute, poet and educator Dasan Ahanu understands this truth...
