SPECIAL: Black Culture 2004

In-depth black history is not on the test

Will the standards-based reform movement leave the study of African-American culture--and others--dangling behind?

By Damien Jackson | 3 Mar 2004

John Hope Franklin: 'An old man needs to be radical, too'

A young woman reconnects with John Hope Franklin to talk about America's racist beginnings, African Americans' forgotten history and Strom Thurmond's sexual assault

By olufunke moses | 25 Feb 2004

'Yo mama is so...'

By Courtney Reid-Eaton | 18 Feb 2004

UNC professor Chuck Stone is himself an icon of
black history. He was an associate of both Martin
Luther King and Malcolm X, and worked for
congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

To celebrate it, live it

Local arts and cultural leaders suggest novel ways to mark Black History Month

By Barbara Solow | 11 Feb 2004

Mabel Williams at the Afro-American Cultural Center in
Charlotte at the first North Carolina screening of
Negroes with Guns

She fought back

Mabel Williams, North Carolina's black power heroine, returns home to screen a documentary about her husband, Robert F. Williams

By Jon Elliston | 11 Feb 2004

Preacha’ Man Carl Kenney of Compassion Ministries

Waiting to exhale

A local minister recounts how he learned to breathe

By Carl Kenney | 4 Feb 2004

See Also: SPECIAL: Black Culture 2004 Archives