Gabriel Morrison

'Considering the hip-hop South': Professors bring Southern hip-hop festival to Chapel Hill

Starting April 22, the festival will include two nights of live music at several venues including Cat’s Cradle. In addition, there will be a virtual lecture on sneaker culture, an exhibition of hip-hop scholarship and a public mural. “When you think about chronicling the South, I don’t think you can do that without considering the hip-hop South,” Christopher Massenburg (also known as Dasan Ahanu), an adjunct professor at UNC and one of the festival co-curators, said.

Community members march on Franklin Street to demand local affordable housing

"House Us Now" demonstrators gathered at the Peace and Justice Plaza in downtown Chapel Hill on Saturday in hopes of constructing affordable housing units for people who make less than 30 percent of the area median income. In Chapel Hill, the AMI is about $22,500 per year.  

Chapel Hill historian receives grant to research oral history of local Black community

In mid-March, Danita Mason-Hogans was selected by the Oral History Association to receive a $60,000 federal grant to study oral histories of local Black community members. The seventh-generation Chapel Hill native will use the funds for her project, “The Invisible Town: A Critical Oral History of Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina." 

Chapel Hill to build bike, pedestrian paths along Fordham Boulevard and Morgan Creek

Over $1 million in funding was approved by the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization board in early March for the construction of two new bike and pedestrian paths in Chapel Hill. 

NCDOT announces updates to state bike routes after calls for safer streets

The updates will be made as part of NCDOT's WalkBikeNC, a bicycle and pedestrian plan which was last reevaluated and updated in 2013.

Carrboro Town Council and BOCC discuss 203 Project's budget

The Town of Carrboro is expected to contribute almost $8 million more than predicted in March 2021.

Covering COVID-19

Members of The Daily Tar Heel's editing staff talk about what its been like covering COVID-19 over the past year as student journalists.

2021 DTH Distinguished Alumni: Melanie Sill

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hear how students are celebrating Valentine's Day this year from the editors of the Arts and Culture Desk. Video by Isaiah Dickerson, Gabriel Morrison and Daniella Escobar.