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225 years after signing his freedom documents, Peter Oliver is celebrated this Juneteenth week in Winston-Salem

5:00am June 18, 2025

Formerly enslaved tradesman Peter Oliver purchased his freedom from slavery on June 13, 1800. His remarkable life and legacy are being celebrated where he last lived and raised a family, in what was then the town of Salem. A public gathering place will be built in his honor on the land he once farmed.

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Artistic rendering of a greenway entrance to the Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery

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Winston-Salem City Council approves land for the Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery

2:06pm June 18, 2024

by David Ford

The Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery will sit upon the same land in Winston-Salem that the 18th and 19th century formerly enslaved man once homesteaded and farmed.

Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?

6:30am May 07, 2024

by Greg Rosalsky

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's new book argues the road to tyranny is paved not by too much, but by too little government.

Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery overview drawing

Race

New urban park in Winston-Salem will showcase freedom fight of enslaved Moravian

3:14pm February 15, 2023

by David Ford

A new urban park is coming to the Triad. Its roots date back to the 18th century, and an African American story that’s unique to Winston-Salem.

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Cover of In the Country of Others and author Leila Slimani.

Walking Through "The Country Of Others"

1:07pm September 15, 2021

by Leah Donnella

In her new novel, In the Country of Others, Leila Slimani explores what it means to be an outsider. Her characters fight to establish their own identities while their country, Morocco, does the same.

The Freeman Room in the Ashley House in Sheffield, Mass., includes a portrait of Elizabeth Freeman.

National

In The 1700s An Enslaved Massachusetts Woman Sued For Her Freedom — And Won

11:56am February 27, 2020

by Nancy Eve Cohen

Elizabeth Freeman used the colonists' ideas of equality and independence to sue for her freedom. Her lawyer was Theodore Sedgwick, who would later become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Egypt Raids 2 Major Independent Cultural Institutions In 2 Days

4:39pm December 29, 2015

by Merrit Kennedy

Authorities targeted an art gallery and a publishing house in Cairo that are pillars of the independent cultural scene. The raids have raised concerns about freedom of expression in Egypt.