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The city’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $6 million that will go toward green and equitable infrastructure in historically Black neighborhoods. Durham intends to allocate money every year going forward.
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Like many universities, Wake Forest is trying to come to terms with its antebellum past. The school's president announced this month that this work is why trustees chose to rename Wingate Hall, named for a slave-owner, as "May 7, 1860 Hall." But the name has been rejected by Black alumni, who said it adds fresh pain to a traumatic legacy.
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The North Carolina city of Asheville is considering removing the names of slave owners and other people associated with discrimination from some streets…
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Superintendent Earnest Winston said Tuesday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will get rid of all school names "that many in our community say glorify...
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Jaki Shelton Green joins us on her birthday to discuss “the wind of freedom” which billows through the North Carolina poet laureate’s new album of verse…
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Jaki Shelton Green joins us on her birthday to discuss “the wind of freedom” which billows through the North Carolina poet laureate’s new album of verse…
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In the 1700s, approximately 5% of the pre-colonial United States was Muslim. Most of them were enslaved, and one of the foundational figures of early…
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In the 1700s, approximately 5% of the pre-colonial United States was Muslim. Most of them were enslaved, and one of the foundational figures of early…
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This Mother’s Day weekend, the Stagville State Historic Site in Durham is remembering the enslaved women who once toiled on the plantation. Researchers…
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The slave narrative was the first form of literature indigenous to the United States. William L. Andrews analyzed more than 60 slave narratives published…