Black History Month -

Award-winning author Marcia Chatelain delivers 2022 Black History Month lecture

By Brooke Elliott | February 11

On Feb. 9, acclaimed historian and Georgetown University professor Marcia Chatelain delivered UNC’s 2022 Black History Month lecture, discussing her ...

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Local filmmakers to host inaugural Chapel Hill Black Film Festival

By Jeremiah Holloway | February 8

On Feb. 12, three Black local filmmakers will show their creations at the first Chapel Hill Black Film Festival at the Varsity Theater. The doors open ...

Here's how Chapel Hill and Carrboro are celebrating Black History Month

By Meagan Bergstrom | February 8

With Black History Month underway, here's a list of events happening around Chapel Hill and Carrboro to celebrate.

A guide to Black History Month events on campus

By Liv Reilly | February 8

Black History Month is celebrated annually throughout the month of February. The campus community has planned the 2022 Black History Month Lecture, "Blood ...

Column: Three do’s and don’ts for Black History Month

By Zari Taylor | February 8

"Black History Month is a time to spotlight the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans that dealt with centuries of slavery, legalized ...

UNC School of Social Work launches its first Black History Month Research Series

By Valeria Cloës | February 8

The UNC School of Social Work launched its inaugural Black History Month Research Series last Wednesday. The series highlights work from an anti-racist ...

Seafood restaurant brings new cultural dishes for Black History Month

By Samuel Long | February 6

Owner and chef Ricky Moore said the dishes are simple and authentically African-influenced, chosen with the goal of indirectly educating people with food. ...

Chapel Hill Poet Laureate CJ Suitt seeks to uplift other artists

By Katie MacKinnon | January 30

“CJ’s poetry has always been profoundly beautiful, and all I really ever really had to do was hand him a mic and get out of the way,” Suitt's ...

Oscars Spotlight: 'Da 5 Bloods' teeters on the line between insightful and ineffectual

By Guillermo Molero | March 24

Spike Lee, the renowned director of “Do the Right Thing” and “BlacKkKlansman,” has long been praised for his adept manipulation of the medium ...

Marvel Cooke’s legacy lives on in new show from Playmakers: 'Edges of Time'

By Macon Porterfield | March 8

Playwright and assistant professor Jacqueline E. Lawton's most recent play, "Edges of Time," shows the life of Marvel Cooke, the first Black woman journalist ...

'A necessary evil': Code-switching calls for alteration of dialect

By Nathan Wesley | March 2

“We're either consciously or unconsciously varying the way that we speak in response to the context in which we're in,” J. Michael Terry, an associate ...

'The Suffragist Project' podcast highlights the lives of women’s suffrage leaders

By Casey Meisel | March 2

“I didn't really know what to expect at all, but the storytelling and the acting was just all really well put together and I could almost visualize ...

Durham minister fights for Holocaust education bill to include Black history

By Bethany Lee | March 1

N.C. legislators filed a bill on Feb. 10 to make Holocaust and genocide education mandatory for public schools, but Durham minister and activist Paul ...

UNC alumna Sakari Milan explores untold Black history through children’s books

By Charity Cohen | March 1

“It allows Black children to start to imagine, it allows Black children to start to dream, especially at that young age, where imagination is a huge ...

'This is an unfinished world': Charles E. Cobb speaks about Black activism at lecture

By Jennifer Tran | February 25

Cobb, a journalist and former activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, spoke of various Black leaders and organizations aimed toward ...

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Old North State stories: Princeville, the first of many

By Michael Beauregard | February 24

Princeville isn’t an ordinary town. It was the first of its kind, an American community founded by freed slaves, and has served as a microcosm of environmental ...

'Get what you earn': Joanne Aluka-White's journey from Georgia blacktops to coaching

By Zachary Crain | February 24

Joanne Aluka-White has helped orchestrate the beginnings of a women’s basketball renaissance at North Carolina under head coach Courtney Banghart, serving ...

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'ARTivism' event will highlight scholars who use art to confront racism

By Mika Travis | February 23

The Race, Racism and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium will hold its third virtual event, “ARTivism: Using Arts-based Scholarship to Interrogate and Dismantle ...

2021 Piedmont Laureate aims to increase representation in children's literature

By Macon Porterfield | February 23

"After 17 years as a writer, Lyons has published over 15 children’s books with people of color serving main character roles."

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Editorial: Remembering UNC's first Black students

By Editorial Board | February 23

As we celebrate Black History Month and honor the first African American students to enroll at Carolina, let us not forget the many hardships they faced. ...