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Episode 23: Race Class August 26 2022

#RaceClass | Episode 8, Part B2022 08 24OutlineRace Matters Before Admissions UNC’s Legacy of Racial Exclusion | A Conversation with Dr. William SturkeyArnie Open Legislation restricting the teaching of race and racism in public schools and government entities has spread across the country. In an e…

Ep. 8 (The B-Side): UNC's Legacy of Anti-Black Racism | A Conversation with Dr. William Sturkey

This month on #RaceClass, we asked: How does race matter before admissions? To explore that question, UNC historian Dr. William Sturkey joins us to unpack UNC-Chapel Hill’s legacy of racial exclusion and anti-Black racism. Dr. Sturkey details UNC’s ongoing inability to reckon with this history. U…

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey on his deep concerns about the plans of university trustees to establish a new school on the campus devoted to advancing conservative ideology. Read Sturkey’s latest commentary: UNC Chapel Hill trustees misfire with rushed and ill-conceived plan …

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey on his deep concerns about the plans of university trustees to establish a new school on the campus devoted to advancing conservative ideology. Read Sturkey’s latest commentary: UNC Chapel Hill trustees misfire with rushed and ill-conceived plan …

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey

UNC Chapel Hill history professor William Sturkey on his deep concerns about the plans of university trustees to establish a new school on the campus devoted to advancing conservative ideology. Read Sturkey’s latest commentary: UNC Chapel Hill trustees misfire with rushed and ill-conceived plan…

Corleone Sicily with Justin Cascio

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. In this episode, Gary discusses with Justin Cascio, a mafia genealogist, his book In Our Blood: The Mafia in Corleone, Italy, In Our Blood: The Mafia Families of Corleone. We expl…

S6 E1: What Was Lost

This series tells the story of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, and the white supremacist massacre that went with it. It happened in Wilmington, North Carolina in November 1898. But before we get to that story, we explore the surprising world of Wilmington in the 19th century – the …

S6 E3: A Day of Blood

On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls – confirming the success of their campaign based on white supremacy, intimidation, and fraud. But in Wilmington, the state’s largest city, white supremacist leaders were not satisfied. This episode tells what happened on…

S6 E4: The Forgetting

After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising Black citizens and instituting Jim Crow segregation. They also took control of the narrative. A new propaganda campaign, the one after the fact, succeeded for a century –…

William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White" (Harvard UP, 2019)

If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. There you can see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and hu…