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2024 has ushered in a renaissance for Black country musicians in an industry that has historically overlooked them. Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with writer Alice Randall and musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer.
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The 1980s were an important — and too often overlooked — decade for Black worker resistance, according to NC State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, who recently wrote about the struggles faced by Schlage Lock workers in 1988.
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Leoneda Inge speaks with Henry Capers Jr. of the Emily K Center about HBCU college fairs. Dr. Cynthia Jackson Hammond discusses the roles and risks of losing of college accreditation. Dean Patricia Timmons-Goodson celebrates NCCU School of Law's 85th anniversary.
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A family in Raleigh was one of the first to fight to get their son Joseph Holt Jr. into an all-white school in the 1950s. As part of Black History Month, Wake County libraries highlighted the family as well as State Administrator Dudley Flood, who traveled across North Carolina assisting schools with integration.
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Some scholars say legislative efforts to limit discussion of race in classrooms across the country underscore the need to make sure local Black history is taught and remembered.
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A new website shows updated information about the former enslaved workers who built North Carolina’s State Capitol.
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When Guillermo Nurse was elected mayor of Oxford, North Carolina in November, he became the first Latino mayor in the state. He's also the first Black mayor of Oxford. Nurse ran on a platform of unity in a town that he says has struggled with racial and economic division for decades.
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Over half of the gravesites at the historic African American Maides Cemetery in Wilmington are unidentified. UNC-Wilmington researchers are working with the Historic Wilmington Foundation to identify them and bring about better recognition for the history of Black residents in the area.
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The Navy stopped short of invoking the extremism rules against Bryce Henson, who has appeared at rallies alongside the Proud Boys and posted threatening messages online.
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Due South co-host Leoneda Inge has launched a new recurring segment on historically Black colleges and universities: HBCU 101.
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It alleges that public schools are “systematically marginalizing” lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students.
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A new effort is underway to complete 500 acres of oyster sanctuaries in the Pamlico Sound. It’s an effort to combat a century of decline in oyster populations. But, the goals extend beyond the water’s edge.