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The Porches of Northside

The front porch. The space between inside and outside, private and public worlds. A place for friends and family to gather and to renew the essential connections that make up community. A place to sit and watch out; a place from which to receive the waves of passing neighbors and strangers as…

Timeline of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

This timeline details the history of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Photos courtesy of Mrs. Patricia "Pat" Jackson and St. Joseph CME Church.

Waters Films Showing Black Residents in Chapel Hill in 1939 (Reel 1)

Photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee from 1936-1942 to film small communities. These videos, which he named “Movies of Local People” aired in local movie theaters, often before feature films. Trying to film as many people as…

Waters Films Showing Black Residents in Chapel Hill in 1939 (Reel 2)

Photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee from 1936-1942 to film small communities. These videos, which he named “Movies of Local People” aired in local movie theaters, often before feature films. Trying to film as many people as…