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Back in the mid-1990s, singer/songwriter Elizabeth Haddix had just entered law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she realized…

As the year comes to a close, popular culture experts Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and broadcast media at St. Augustine’s University in…

Lawmakers are back in Raleigh for yet another special session—the fifth of the year.This time they reconvened to consider repeal of the controversial…

In the summer of 2014, writer Susan Rivers was busy researching historical documents in her local library when she came across something interesting. It…

Musician Jill Andrews began her music career in the early 2000’s as the cofounder of the alt-country group, the everybodyfields. After releasing three…

Since the shooting of nine African-Americans at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, public discourse has focused in part on how the…

Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones' newest creation, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, is based on interviews he conducted with his 95-year-old…

Tens of thousands of African-Americans called Appalachia home in the early 20th century, yet most popular representations of the region rarely include…

Earlier this week the Obama Administration announced its EPA Clean Power Plan that directs states to lower greenhouse gas emissions from coal-burning…

Pediatric oncologist Dr. Raymond Barfield has always loved storytelling. As a child he would often sit and listen to his grandfather tell tales, and in…