Across the Triangle, Black-owned barbershops like Masterworks Barbershop and Kendrick's Kave Barbershop provide not only a much-needed service to people, but a community space as well. “Being able to make people happy, make people smile and make people feel good is what makes me happy,” Masterworks Barbershop owner Kevin Bowick.
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"Black History Month is a time to spotlight the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans that dealt with centuries of slavery, legalized discrimination, systemic racism and interpersonal hatred and anti-Blackness."
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The UNC School of Social Work launched its inaugural Black History Month Research Series last Wednesday. The series highlights work from an anti-racist approach by faculty, doctoral students, alumni and external researchers.
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Owner and chef Ricky Moore said the dishes are simple and authentically African-influenced, chosen with the goal of indirectly educating people with food.
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“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 10th grade English teacher, Michael Irwin, said.
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Spike Lee, the renowned director of “Do the Right Thing” and “BlacKkKlansman,” has long been praised for his adept manipulation of the medium he works in, using unique constructions to tell unique stories. “Da 5 Bloods” is a continuation of this trend.
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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 to have her own byline in a major U.S. newspaper.
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“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 professor in the linguistics department, said. “Response to the ways in which the context of people that we're around, right, and a lot of times how we're likely to be perceived.”
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“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 what was going on,” social media intern for OdysseyStage Eloise Rich said.
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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 Scott is demanding the bill also include Black history.
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“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 part of identity development,” student Jamirious Mooney said.
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Cobb, a journalist and former activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, spoke of various Black leaders and organizations aimed toward challenging the denial of voting rights, segregation, racial discrimination and white supremacy.
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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 racism in the United States.
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Joanne Aluka-White has helped orchestrate the beginnings of a women’s basketball renaissance at North Carolina under head coach Courtney Banghart, serving as the primary coach for a UNC post unit that has helped anchor the Tar Heels over the past two seasons.
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The Race, Racism and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium will hold its third virtual event, “ARTivism: Using Arts-based Scholarship to Interrogate and Dismantle Racism,” on Feb. 24 from 3-4:30 p.m.
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