We are a collaborative. In 2005, we had the great luck to begin listening to the life histories of people who work, live, worship, play and serve in the many neighborhoods that make up Chapel Hill’s historic Northside and Pine … Continue reading
We have begun to feature stories from around the Northside neighborhood using interviews from our “Facing Our Neighbors” initiative and the extensive local history collection of the Southern Oral History Program. Visit our Jackson Center Histories page to view these … Continue reading
Fusion Youth Radio (FYR) is a diverse group of young people with a desire to make their voices a part of history through creative, youth-produced media. FYR is a collaboration of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making … Continue reading
Our community organizing work is grounded in the powers of coalition and partnership building and guided by remarkable community leadership. All of our fair housing and neighborhood advocacy efforts have started with dozens of oral histories, crowded community forums, and … Continue reading
Our aim is to listen: to hear and to preserve the life stories of residents, neighbors, and friends. We want to make sure that the histories we hear, and the values and visions on which they are built, make a difference in our communities now and for generations to come. We are privileged to record the legacies of everyday history-makers, to share them widely, and to follow the example of creative service and leadership that they convey.