For more than a century, rest never came easily to Viola Ford Fletcher. When she closed her eyes, the horror of what she experienced in 1921 in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, haunted her dreams. “When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she explained in “Don’t Let

Mollie Huston Lee, white providing library service to a patient at Saint Agnes Hospital in 1941. - Courtesy of DigitalNC Collections For 90 years, the Richard B. Harrison Community Library has been more than a place to borrow books; it’s been a cornerstone of Southeast Raleigh. Generations have come through its doors to learn, connect and grow,

DURHAM – Durham has beautiful neighborhoods with valuable and historic homes, but their deeds show an uglier side of history. Last month, an opening reception for the community-led project, “Hacking into History: Discovering Racial Covenants in Durham Property Deeds,” was held at Perfect Lovers on North Roxboro Street. See video here.

The F.D. Wharton House RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources celebrates the addition of two new historic districts and five individual properties from across the state that were added to the National Register of Historic Places. The properties were reviewed by the N.C. National Register Advisory Committee,

Community members gathered at T.S. Cooper Elementary School last month to honor Annie Wealthy Holland, an educator whose work shaped Black schools in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. The community festival was organized by the Center for Racial Equity in Education as part of its Jeanes Arts + Education Initiative. The initiative honors the legacy

There are not enough words to describe the emotions surrounding Wednesday’s groundbreaking celebration for The Holt on Oberlin, honoring the legacy of Joseph Holt Jr. and his family’s fight to desegregate Wake County schools in the 1950s. The nine luxury townhomes are being developed by Raleigh Raised Development co-founders LeVelle Moton, CJ

Nikita Harris, left, discusses her exhibit with a visitor. Former Alabama Professor Nikita Harris is on a mission to share the history of Black debutantes and cotillions – not as pageantry but as protest. Harris said the Black debutante tradition is a powerful statement about Black pride and resilience. “Across the U.S., Black families

RALEIGH — A pair of beach resorts for Black families organized in North Carolina before desegregation will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker. Seabreeze and Freeman Beach were two pioneering beach resorts established in New Hanover County in 1922 and 1951, respectively. Closely related to each other geographically, and