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 Alice Battle - On Lincoln High School and Black businesses in Chapel Hill

This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…

Alicia Gomez

 Alicia Gomez - On her education, being a Jackson Scholar, and musical goals

At the time of the interview, Alicia Gomez was a Jackson Scholar who attended city council and town meetings and worked on a video project. Gomez is originally from New York and moved to Chapel Hill in 2009. Gomez attended Pace charter school after getting off-track academically. She speaks about…

Allen Buansi

 Allen Buansi - How his mother inspired him (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On addressing the NC teacher shortage (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On criminal justice reform (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On differing viewpoints in college (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On Education

"I really want my kids to first off, be good people, kind people, to be respectful of others, and to be advocates for themselves. I’m of course going to be their best advocate, along with their mother, my wife. But giving them the tools to be able to recognize when they themselves or others are…

 Allen Buansi - On getting into college (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his "three moms" (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his AP U.S. History teacher (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his AVID teacher (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his environmental justice work (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his family and moving to Chapel Hill (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On his mother advocating for him in school (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On instilling a sense of belonging (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On mentoring students (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On New Hampshire vs. North Carolina (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On raising his children (clip)

 Allen Buansi - On working across the aisle (clip)

 Allen Buansi - Why elections matter for schools (clip)

 Alyssa Oppenwal responds artistically to an interview with James Foushee

Amanda Ashley

Amanda Ashley grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a home economics teacher, and so she grew up with a strong understanding of nutrition. In the summers, they would sometimes visit her grandmother who had a farm in Georgia, where they enjoyed fresh pecans, corn, and scuppernong…