Issue: Fall 2020
Southern Futures: Diverse voices for a changing region. Also inside: Carolina Pivots; A Poet’s Roots; Pandemic-inspired research and more.
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Black Towns, Black Futures
Anthropologist Karla Slocum focuses on the historic and contemporary significance of Black communities.
Unvarnished truth
Alumnus Elijah Heyward is guiding plans for the new International African American Museum on the site of the largest point of entry for enslaved people into the United States.
‘Your only limitation is your own imagination’
Richard Watkins, program coordinator for Chancellor’s Science Scholars (CSS), shares how UNC helped shape his career path and why he invests in the next generation of STEM talent.
By Land
Tyree Daye, assistant professor of creative writing, shares his poem "By Land" from his new collection, Cardinal.
Southern Futures: Diverse voices for a changing region
Southern Futures is a new campuswide initiative that supports cutting-edge scholarship, creative endeavors and thoughtful conversations across disciplines.
Southern Futures: Voices of resilience and recovery in Robeson County
Ph.D. candidate Diamond Holloman leads a Southern Futures project that examines the impact of climate change through the lens of environmental humanities.
Southern Futures: Vulnerable lives on the Matanzas River
Anna Hamilton's multimedia project, Matanzas Voices, documents the lives of people along the Matanzas River in St. Augustine, Florida.
Southern Futures: Exploring intersections of class and race in Green Valley
Moriah James studies the historically Black community of Green Valley in Arlington, Virginia. She wants to highlight the success of local entrepreneurs.
Southern Futures: Cultural activism and the fate of Johns Island
Madd Heartley turned her interest in folk music into a project that explores the impact of civil rights activists on the development of Johns Island, South Carolina.
Southern Futures: Chief Hope Officer
UNC alumnus William J. “Bill” Bynum leads a family of organizations named HOPE that is working to strengthen some of the South’s most economically distressed communities.
A Poet’s Southern Atlas
Poet Tyree Daye's newest collection, "Cardinal," explores themes of the Great Migration through his lens as a Black man navigating away from — and returning to — the place he calls home.
Our new normal
Virtual greetings from the first-ever virtual issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine.
Mission always, people first
Alumna Lindsey Jefferies levels her wings, both in the cockpit and out.
Virtually, Viv with Billy Crudup
PlayMakers Repertory Company Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch talks with alumnus Billy Crudup (RTVMP ’90) in a new virtual series featuring industry professionals in a “fireside chat” with Benesch.
Doing COVID-19 Dirty Work
Employing wastewater epidemiology — proven useful in outbreaks of polio and opioid use — UNC microbiologist Rachel Noble is leading a state-wide collaboration tracking novel coronavirus outbreaks across North Carolina, gaining insight that testing individuals does not offer. Read the full story from Endeavors.