The Interviews
Interview audio, video, and transcripts are being prepared for entry into UNC’s Southern Historical Collection, where they will also be freely available online. Our interviewees include:
Obataiye Akinwole, WAFR, Durham
Jereann King Johnson, WVSP, Warrenton
Jim Lee, WVSP, Warrenton
Valeria Lee, WVSP, Warrenton
Donald Baker, WAFR, Durham
Bill Lawson, WAFR, Durham
Ralph and Teverious Williams, WAFR, Durham
Vincent Spruill, WAFR, Durham
Lew Myers, Soul City, North Carolina
Mark Pinsky, Duke Chronicle, Protean Radish, and Carolina Plaindealer, Durham
James E. Robinson, WBMU Radio, Asheville
Paul Pope, Capital Broadcasting and WRAL Television, Raleigh
Kenneth Edmonds, Carolina Times, Durham
George Vlasits, The Protean Radish, Chapel Hill
Willie Walls, WVOE Radio, Chadbourn
Annie Mae Williamson, WVOE Radio, Chadbourn
Wayne Gilbert Sharpe, WVOE Radio, Chadbourn and WWIL Radio, Wilmington
Leon Rooke, North Carolina Anvil, Chapel Hill
Milo Pyne, Carolina Plain Dealer, Durham
Milton Coleman, African World and SOBU Newsletter, Greensboro
Steven Schewel, North Carolina Independent, Durham
Clarence Williams, Capital Broadcasting and WRAL Television, Raleigh
Barry Yeoman, North Carolina Independent, Durham
Dee Reid, North Carolina Independent, Durham
Jeffrey Starkweather, Chatham County Herald, Pittsboro
Lewis Brandon, manager of the Uhuru Community Bookstore, Greensboro
Howard Fuller (Owusu Sadaukai), North Carolina Fund and Malcolm X Liberation University, Durham and Greensboro
Paul Jervay, The Carolinian, Raleigh
Sue Sturgis, Facing South and the Institute of Southern Studies, Durham
Bob Hall, Southern Exposure, Durham
Ernie Pitt, Winston-Salem Chronicle
Stephanie Coffin, Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta
Evangeline Grant Redding, UNC-TV, Greenville
Saundra Hughes, WFMY, Greensboro
Daphne Muse, Drum and Spear Bookstore, Washington, D.C.
Robert Chapman, WDBS and WAFR, Durham
Rep. Yvonne Lewis Holley, daughter of television host J.D. Lewis, Raleigh
Alma Blount, The Independent, Durham
Signe Waller Foxworth, Workers Viewpoint, Greensboro
Jim Grant, Southern Patriot and The African World, Wilson
Jake Phelps, Duke Chronicle, Durham
Arnie Katz, The Carologue, Durham
Harlon Joye, WRFG, Atlanta
Barbara Joye, WRFG, Atlanta
Edward Vaughn, Vaughn’s Bookstore, Detroit
Joel Bulkley, The North Carolina Anvil, Chapel Hill
Tom Campbell, Duke Chronicle and The Regulator Bookshop, Durham
Larry Little, The Black Panther newspaper, Winston-Salem
Check back soon as we begin to make our entire interviews available online