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 Rani Dasi - On learning to read (clip)

Black Builders: Honoring a Legacy

Black Builders: Honoring a Legacy is a short documentary produced by the MCJC’s public history team for our annual Community Cinema event. It features historic and current photos accompanying oral history excerpts describing the themes chosen by the community design team for the Builders Gateway to…

 Sarita Allen - On being kind yet firm (clip)

 Sarita Allen - On why she taught at CHCCS (clip)

 Rani Dasi - On what she's most proud of during her school board tenure (clip)

Rani Dasi: I think that the thing that I’m most proud of is we definitely think about all students in a different way now. So we, as we make major decisions, we use a tool called “Racial Equity Decision Making Analysis” and it’s not just that we’re based on race but we’re considering questions like,…

 Rani Dasi - On how CHCCS presents (clip)

 Gwen Atwater - On taking care of students (clip)

Gwen Atwater: I would give this spiel the last day of school and I would always tell my children, you know you’re not just mine for this year. Once you cross that door, you’re mine for the rest of your life. You are my family member. I’d say I care about you, and I want to know what you are doing. I…

 Gwen Atwater - On the importance of planning (clip)

 Reginald D. Smith, II - On his parents career in education

 Annie Jones Goins and Eugene Farrar - On their family history and legacy of builders

Music

The historically Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro have a long and storied musical legacy. Music has played a tremendous role in practices of faith in the area going back to the 19th century and before. In a 2007 oral history, Mrs. Brenda Jackson pointed to the historical roots of…

Airport & Intown Taxi

David Lyles

Rani Dasi

 Patricia Jackson - On St. Joseph CME Church from 1970-1974

"Well, it was always a place [the church] you could come to gain and find out the needs of the community." - Patricia "Pat" Jackson This interview is a part of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center’s faith series. In this interview, Pat Jackson discusses the life and legacy of Reverend Charles L. Hilton,…

 Dr. Bettina Shuford - On faith

Dr. Bettina Shuford

 Michael Jones - On faith

Michael Jones

 Jane Farrar - On faith

 Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On her faith

 Virginia Carson - On faith

Virginia Carson

 R.D. and Euzelle Smith - On working while at Hampton (clip)

Euzelle Smith (ES): Both of us were what is now called Self-Help students. We used to call them working students at Hampton. One year you had more work hours than class hours, but you started building up your account. And then after that you would have work…part-time work. And you never got cash or…