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A photo of Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan handing the Fryes a key to the city

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Race

Former NC Chief Justice Henry Frye and wife Shirley Frye receive key to the city of Greensboro

2:16pm September 18, 2024

Around 100 people came out to celebrate the civil rights icons who helped integrate communities while establishing a far-reaching legacy.

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Historic Winston-Salem shotgun houses and the stories of those who called them home to be preserved

4:57pm February 26, 2024

by David Ford

Triad Cultural Arts was awarded a North Carolina Humanities Grant for the Shotgun House Legacy Site. $3,000 will be utilized to document significant narratives from residents concerning Black life in Winston-Salem throughout the Jim Crow and Civil Rights periods.

Culture

Echoes of a Coup

7:00pm February 21, 2024

by Scene on Radio

In November, 1898, an armed white supremacist mob – supported by most white elites in North Carolina – murdered untold Black Wilmington residents and drove the city’s elected Fusionist government f

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A photo of a statue of Justice Henry Frye and his wife Shirley Frye.

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Race

New statue honoring Chief Justice Henry Frye and wife Shirley Frye unveiled in downtown Greensboro

3:40pm February 20, 2024

by DJ Simmons

The Fryes have called Greensboro home for the past 70 years. Henry served as the first Black chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Shirley led the integration of the city's two YWCAs in the 1970s.

A newspaper clipping of an 1898 News and Observer article

America's only successful coup d’état took place in Wilmington, 1898. 'Scene on Radio' tells the story

4:47am February 19, 2024

by David Ford

The Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 destroyed a once thriving multiracial democracy, killed dozens if not hundreds of innocent Black people, and left in its wake a community forever scarred.

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Race
Books

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe kicks off 'HBCU Made' book tour at WSSU

3:27pm February 07, 2024

by David Ford

Author and NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe talks with WFDD's David Ford about her new book HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience.

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Race

Black builders and craftspeople honored in new exhibit

4:25pm February 05, 2024

by Paul Garber

The city of Winston-Salem is honoring Black History Month with a traveling exhibit celebrating the history of Black builders and craftspeople.

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Arts

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of Langston Hughes

2:00pm February 02, 2024

This special program, hosted by stage and film actor Teagle F. Bougere, celebrates the protean literary master and social activist Langston Hughes (1901-1967).

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High Point city councilman sees reparations report as a way to address city's inequities

4:09pm February 01, 2024

by DJ Simmons

The High Point City Council approved a reparations and reconciliation report in September in an eight-to-one vote, representing the culmination of an effort first started by the local NAACP Chapter.

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Attendees gathered around the February One monument

NC A&T commemorates 64th anniversary of civil rights sit-in with conversation about social justice

2:49pm February 01, 2024

by Amy Diaz

Sixty-four years ago, four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University freshmen staged a sit-in at a Woolworth in Greensboro to fight segregation. The school commemorated the anniversary today with a conversation about social justice.

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