by Admin | Jun 28, 2022 | NEWS
Kevin Thomas, a.k.a. KAZE (pronounced Kah-zee) wasn’t born in Chapel Hill but he considers himself a Tar Heel. When Kaze was 13, the family picked up and moved to North Carolina and Kaze has made a name for himself in the arts, music, and civic engagement ever since....
by Admin | Jun 20, 2022 | NEWS
While more people may remember the Freedom Riders of 1961, 16 civil rights activists helped set the blueprint for the demonstrations against Jim Crow laws in the South a few years earlier in 1947. On Friday, decades-old punishments in Orange County against four of...
by Admin | Jun 3, 2022 | NEWS
On February 28 in 1960, nine young men from Chapel Hill’s all-black high school organized a sit-in at the Colonial Drug Store on Franklin Street. These 16 to 18-year-olds from Lincoln High were arrested for seeking the same service that was given to white customers....
by Admin | Jun 3, 2022 | NEWS
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted unanimously to rename the Chapel Hill Transit facility on Millhouse Road for former Chapel Hill Mayor and state Sen. Howard Lee and his wife, Lillian Lee. Lee, the son of a Georgia sharecropper, won his first election to Chapel...
by Admin | May 3, 2022 | NEWS
This exhibition explores how Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), one of the most important modernist artists of the Harlem Renaissance, gave visual form to the idea that Black American culture is a modern culture of diaspora. Douglas created figures that embody Pan-African...
by Admin | Apr 17, 2022 | NEWS
A diverse coalition of educators, employers, governmental officials, and experts are pleased to introduce the Summer Careers Academy. Launching Summer 2022, these new trades training program will connect Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County youth with skills,...
