Record #:

28023

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

Chapel Hill resident and beekeeper Liz Lindsey is folklorist who is part of a new generation of beekeepers. The new generation is younger, female, and urban. Males tend to dominate the field, but that is changing. Beekeeping in the state of North Carolina and the various reasons women are being drawn to beekeeping are discussed.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 39, September 2010, p31 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Beekeepers; Beekeeping; Women in agriculture; Hobbies

Record #:

28039

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

“The Theme is Blackness” Festival was recently curated by Duke’s Theater Studies faculty. The event is a way to encourage diversity in theater. The number of minority students who participate in Duke’s Theater programs is approximately 10 percent and the department has not had any black directors of plays over the last 15 years. This year, the festival premiered a play produced by a black director and used a NC Arts Council grant to foster black stage designers. The festivals plays are intended to celebrate blackness and push audiences to consider issues of race.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 45, November 2010, p18 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Drama; Festivals; Duke University

Record #:

28230

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

Durham author Zelda Lockhart discusses her African-American family’s Indian heritage. Her maternal great-grandmother was a Choctaw who married her black great-grandfather. Lockhart discusses the history of African-American and Indian relations and how both groups were involved in the slave trade. Her latest novel brings to life what she learned of her family’s hidden native heritage through fiction.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 13, March 2007, p33-34 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Authors, North Carolina; Authors--Interviews; Indians of North America--Relations with African Americans

Record #:

28317

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

Clara Sue Kidwell is the director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s American Indian Center. Kidwell discusses the reasons for having an American Indian Center on campus, the future of a new building for the center on campus, and the need for research about American Indian communities.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 39, September 2007, p9 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--Education; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record #:

8413

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

Durham author Michele Andrea Bowen is one of the country's most successful writers of African American-oriented, religiously themed fiction. She is known as one of the \"bad girls of Christian fiction,\" a term she coined herself when she and two other black writers presented their books to the Christian Booksellers Association convention. Their books, which were a little steamy and a little spicy, were not what convention members envisioned as Christian literature. CHURCH FOLK, Bowen's first book, has sold over 280,000 copies since its publication in 2001. Bowen discusses her novels and how she got started writing them.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 45, Nov 2006, p20-21, 23-24, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American women authors--Durham