OUR MISSION

This website is a product of Orange County, North Carolina through its department, The Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, www.visitchapelhill.org

Their Board’s Racial Equity and Inclusion committee, created this website to honor the contributions of local black, indigenous people of color in our communities and our resident’s far reaching impact on the course of history.

“There are black people from Chapel Hill. Always have been, always will be. We are every path, road, sidewalk, hospital hall, UNC building, Franklin Street restaurant and bar. Every Rosemary Street block. Every black church that holds up the western border of town — St. Joseph CME, St. Paul AME, FBC (First Baptist Church) and Second Baptist — plus Hickory Grove, Hamlet Chapel, O’Bryant Chapel and Terrells Creek. We are Northside and Tin Top and the Hargraves Community Center. And Merritt Mill and Lindsay and McDade and Church streets. Caldwell, Pritchard, Graham, Sunset, 54, Craig, Eubanks, Piney Mt., Old Lystra, Rogers Road, Old 86, and everything in between, beside and over yonder! We are here from A to Z.” — Cynthia Edwards-Paschall