Jan
8
OCCRC Inaugural Reception
United Church of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Feb
2
A Symposium: The Legacy of Lynching
Jerry M. Passmore Center, Hillsborough
Mar
10
Film Screening: “Strange Fruit”
Varsity Theater, Chapel Hill
Apr
7
110th Anniversary: Founding of the NAACP & Anti-Lynching Efforts
Southern Human Services Center, Chapel Hill
May
19
Free Spirit FREEDOM’s Gospel Music Festival: “Sounds of Freedom”
David E. Price Farmers Market Pavilion, Hillsborough
2p-5p
Jun
15
154th Juneteenth Celebration
Cedar Grove Community Center, Cedar Grove
9a – 2p
Jul
4
Reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July”
Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro
10a
Aug
11
Film Screening: “The Long Shadow” | Panel Discussion
Varsity Theater, Chapel Hill
4p – 6:15p
Aug
24
Sep
9
Just Another Lynching – Performance by Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins
Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill
6p – 8p
Sept
14
Blacks in World War I, the Red Summer of 1919 & the Paris Pan African Congress
Jerry M. Passmore Center, 103 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough, NC
10a – 12p
Nov
16
Soils Collection, Libations & Remembrance Ceremony
Soils Collection by Invitation Only
9am-9:45am
Libations & Remembrance Ceremony
Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church
9112 Bethel Hickory Grove Church Road
Chapel Hill, NC
10am-12pm