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Happy Music Monday! Is anyone ready for Christmas? I know we have a lot of things to be thankful for, but here’s a song to get everyone into the spirit incase you aren’t already! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Holiday Season!

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Next month, Dec 12th; we will be having a Holiday Housewarming at the Jackson Center! We’re looking forward to having everyone join us for hot chocolate, some food, and maybe dancing? Join if you can!

Happy Foodie Friday

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Happy Foody Friday everyone! We hope you all are excited about Thanksgiving because we all are! Here’s a recipe for a Sweet Potato Pie by Jimmie Lee Bynum. If you end up using this recipe, contact us and let us … Continued

Letter from our Executive Director

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Dear friends: We have a new home. Side-by-side with St. Joseph C.M.E., we are still proudly at the gateway to Northside and still in immediate to proximity to “Heavenly Groceries/Comida Celestial.” What’s new? At first flush: space. We now have … Continued

Education and Research Update

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With the opening of the new Northside Elementary School, this has been an extremely exciting time for the Public History Team.  We have developed workshops for the students that nearly all of our staff members have played a role in. … Continued

Civic Media Update

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Fusion Youth Radio is starting its third season!  The first show was Sunday, October 20th with the theme of self-love.  We have nine wonderful students this year from East Chapel Hill High School and Carrboro High School; two first years, … Continued

Celebrating Home Update

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Just over two months ago, we moved into our new space next door to St. Joseph’s church.  This has been extremely exciting!  We now have a kitchen where we can cook, an entire room just for our library, and, overall, … Continued

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Four That’s the number of black women who have been cast members of SNL in the show’s 38-year history. (From: Here’s the Funny Thing About Black Women on SNL.)

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yearningforunity: “Do Not Buy Where You Will Not Be Hired” Floyd McKissick Papers (4930), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill. This photograph was found in the black attorney’s papers, Floyd McKissick. The actual date of the photograph is … Continued

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dreamdefenders: motherjones: For the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights rally, an ode to the women who helped it succeed—and got little recognition for it. (Steve Schapiro/Corbis) Women of the Dream Defenders.