May 7, 1964 ‘War on Poverty’ presidential visit President Lyndon Johnson and N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford visited the home of tenant farmer William David Marlow near Rocky Mount as part of Johnson’s “War On Poverty” […]
May 7, 1964 ‘War on Poverty’ presidential visit President Lyndon Johnson and N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford visited the home of tenant farmer William David Marlow near Rocky Mount as part of Johnson’s “War On Poverty” […]
May 1, 1845North Carolina first in nation for School of the BlindGovernor Morehead School, a school for the blind and deaf, opened in Raleigh. The building was located two blocks west of the State Capitol […]
Trying to write anything about Confederate history or monuments is an enormous task in today’s hyper-partisan and sensitive culture. Nearly impossible is attempting to discuss the topic in a public forum. Any conversation immediately results […]
April 9, 1585 Sir Ralph Lane sailed to America with 107 colonists. By June they arrived to modern day Plymouth Island and established a colony with Lane as governor. The colony later moved to Roanoke […]
April 9, 1585 Sir Ralph Lane sailed to America with 107 colonists. By June they arrived to modern day Plymouth Island and established a colony with Lane as governor. The colony later moved to Roanoke […]
In 2001, Sharon Bryant had two weeks to learn everything there was to know about the West African tradition of Jonkonnu in order to lead a new program at Tryon Palace. “I had to teach […]
The last heat of summer lingered into fall at the corner of Cedar and Mordecai streets on the final Saturday in September as we filed into the visitors center at Mordecai Historic Park.”Tonight is not […]
The state’s $1.5 million sale of Raleigh’s historic Heck-Andrews House has been completed, according to the governor’s office.The deal is part of Gov. Pat McCrory’s “Project Phoenix,” an initiative it says aims to return underutilized […]
Hamilton” is a juggernaut musical currently fetching at least $700 for prime seats. It’s a civic class in hip hop, George Washington’s cabinet argument as rap battle for the future of the fledgling American economy: […]
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