“The History of White People in America” premieres on The World Channel on July 6, but you can watch the intriguing trailer today.
Brian Howe
The Devil’s Interval Gets Its Due in XOXOK’s “Right On”
After we premiered Keenan Jenkins’s stunning meditation on the specter of police violence, we wanted to learn more about where it derived its uncanny power.
Triangle First: The Novelty of Being Happy at Home in Thomas McNeely’s “Total Restoration of the Heart”
The first single from the well-rounded local musician’s forthcoming indie rock EP bursts with optimism and renewal.
Triangle First: Orquesta GarDel Bottles Its Freewheeling LAC Residency in “Siempre Estoy Contigo”
COVID-19 couldn’t stop the Durham salsa band’s social spirit, as the good vibes radiating from this new video attest.
From the Freestyle to the Protest, Cypher Univercity Keeps the Code
“I think we all recognized as soon as the protests happened, this is what we had been training for, in a way,” says Raleigh rapper Jrusalam, who’s been helping hold down the cypher at N.C. State’s Free Expression Tunnel for a decade.
From Midwife Traffic Cops in Thailand to Quechua Rappers in Peru, Saleem Reshamwala Podcasts Stories of Global Ingenuity in “Pindrop”
We interviewed the Durham filmmaker-turned-podcaster about hosting a new global-travel podcast for TED during a pandemic that prevents global travel.
Indigena Presents a Black Lives Matter Reading to Support Emancipate NC
Featuring Jabar Boykin, Honora Ankong, Kayla Rodney, and Destiny Hemphill, “Poetry in Protest” will benefit the anti-mass-incarceration organization’s Freedom Fighter Bond Fund.
N.C. Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green Mourns George Floyd with “Oh My Brother”
The lamentation for Black men murdered by the police will appear on Green’s debut album on Juneteenth. But she released it early because we need it now.
Al Riggs Plays Randy Newman to Support the Bail Project Tonight
COVID-19 heightens the urgency of ending the cruel, arbitrary practice of locking up people who are legally presumed innocent because they can’t afford bail.
New Director Bobby Asher Brings a Community Focus to Duke Performances
“What better way to attract people to an experience than to just ask them what they want that experience to be?”

