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| Black Archives to uncover and curate photographs of black history |
| Sunday, April 11, 2021 |
| NEW YORK – Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, has announced a partnership with Black Archives, providing the multimedia platform that spotlight the Black experience with unique access to its expansive archive. Black Archives Founder Renata Cherlise will cull through the trove of more than 11 million digitized and analog |
| BOOK: IDA B. THE QUEEN |
| Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
| IDA B. THE QUEEN The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells By Michelle Duster Simon and Schuster, $27 HC Journalist. Suffragist. Anti-lynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the |
| Revisiting the Black power dream of NC’s Soul City |
| Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
| In 1969, the civil rights movement was at a turning point. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated the previous year, and many were wondering where the movement should go from there. North Carolina civil rights leader Floyd McKissick, who practiced law in Durham, began to dream about what it might look like if a city could be built from scratch that |
| Free Black Pittsboro man’s legacy lives on 200 years later |
| Thursday, March 25, 2021 |
| Built in 1811 by a free Black man, the Lewis Freeman House was one of the first buildings in the town of Pittsboro. Still standing today, it witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, its brick fireplace kept its occupants warm. In the 1960s, the original wood door opened as the civil rights movement spread across the |
