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| Echoes from the Past: High-schoolers return to work after winter break |
| Tuesday, January 8, 2019 |
| SEDALIA, N.C. – If you were a high school student at Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute returning to school after winter break in 1929, generous portions of learning and a fair amount of labor awaited you. Now called the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, a state historic site, the institute was the only preparatory school to offer an academic |
| Spreading awareness of black classical composers |
| Thursday, January 3, 2019 |
| Coloring Book of Black Composers The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation Can you name three black classical composers? Leading classical violinist soloist and mother Rachel Barton Pine can name 350, and over the past 15-plus years has discovered 900-plus compositions by black composers, many of which were previously hidden in the shadows. The Rachel Barton |
| Raleigh black historic landmarks on the move |
| Thursday, December 20, 2018 |
| Two Raleigh landmarks in Oberlin finally will be moved and renovated to preserve their histories. Preservation North Carolina acquired the Rev. Plummer T. Hall House and the Graves-Fields House over two years ago to renovate the historic buildings from Oberlin’s freedman community after slavery. The organization plans to use both buildings as its |
