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2:45 Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with Nikwasi Initiative Director Elaine Eisenbraun about the next stage of plans for the areas around the Nikwasi Mound in Franklin. The Initiative secured the deed to the mound in 2019. Now Eisenbraun says the agriculture of the early Cherokee will be celebrated at the site. The nonprofit that took control of the sacred Nikwasi Mound in Franklin two years ago is releasing more details about its plans for the site. The Nikwasi Initiative is made up of representatives from Macon County, the town of Franklin, Eastern Band of Cherokee(EBCI) and Mainspring Conservation Trust. Elaine Eisenbraun is its new director. She recently updated the Macon County Commissioners and the Franklin Town Council that the initiative wants to focus on the agricultural history of the site. ....
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11 s month-long look at the past, present and future of Black history continues with an exploration of redlining and how the foundation of housing inequity was built here at home. In Durham, part of that story can be told through ABC11 Anchor Joel Brown s very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durham s Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie Smith Vample. All of them are descendants of Walltown s namesake, George Wall. This is your great great grandfather, George Wall and his second wife, Lily Wall, Manns-Hill said holding up a black and white photograph of Wall and his wife standing in front of his one-story wooden house with a brick chimney. The original homeplace that he built on Onslow Street when he worked at Trinity College before it became Duke University. ....
3:39 The WNC Historical Association is located in Asheville’s oldest brick house. Now the association is hosting an exhibit about the history of Black communities west of Asheville. Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks with author and historian Ann Miller Woodford about why its important to learn about the region’s history – and how to apply it to the present. The Western North Carolina Historical Association is located in Asheville s oldest brick house - where at least 70 people were enslaved. Now the association is hosting an exhibit about the history of Black communities west of Asheville. Author and historian Ann Miller Woodford talks with BPR about why its important to learn about the region’s history – and how to apply it to the present. ....
The battle boils down whether to include three concepts: Systemic Racism Gender Identity Board members supporting the proposal of the language believe the words are factual and not up for debate, saying that children need more well-rounded lessons to process historic inequities. But Robinson, the first Black person to serve as Lt. Governor in the state of North Carolina, and also sits on the state board disagrees. He believes the words could make students develop anti-American feelings. To call our system of government racist, that is an untruth as far as I m concerned. I truly believe that is an untruth as far as history is concerned and it does a disservice to our students. It puts the idea in the mind of our children that they live in a nation that has promoted racism, Robinson said on Thursday. ....
There is a battle at the North Carolina Board of Education and it's a war over words. The fight is political and boils down to verbiage that would be used in social studies standards. ....