Check out the recent media mentions of sustainability-related programs, practices, and people at UNC:
Those Stinky Veggies are Good for You
The News and Observer (Raleigh)
In the category of "food as medicine," some of the most potent disease fighters around are also the strongest-flavored and stinkiest. Among the most elite of the good-for-you crop are brassica or cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Read more »
Voices for Civil Rights
WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill)
In the third installment of our series Voices for Civil Rights, hosted by Eric Hodge, Seth Kotch shares excerpts of two oral histories conducted by the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Freeman Hrabowski describes a clash with his parents over joining the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, when he was just twelve years old. And Moses Newson recounts a trip with a group of freedom riders, when their bus was firebombed by an angry mob. Read more »
Documenting the Women's Movement in the South
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Contraception, access to health care and representation in Congress are issues that motivated feminist activists in the early 1960s and, if Rush Limbaugh's recent time in the headlines is any indication, those issues persist. Women have been effecting social and political change across the South for more than a century, but, if you read the history of the women's movement in America, you'd think all of the action happened in the Northeast. Host Frank Stasio is joined by a panel of guests to consider what we should know about the women's movement in the South, and to discuss what current activists can learn from the historical record. Those joining him include Rachel Seidman, Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joey Fink, a PhD student in history at UNC-Chapel Hill; and Laura Clark Brown, a senior librarian at the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. Read more »
Supremely Indifferent to Historic Injustice
Editorial by Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor at UNC's Law School and director of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity
The News and Observer (Raleigh)
I've spent much time of late in Eastern North Carolina - where the linkage between history, poverty and race astounds. In much of the region, over half of all black, Hispanic and Native American children live in poverty; numbers so vast, so humiliating, they're hard to admit to ourselves. Read more »
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