Join us on Thursday, November 9th from 6pm-7pm for a free, virtual presentation and conversation about racially-restrictive land practices in Durham County. Reckoning with Racial Covenants Public WorkshopThursday, November 9th, 6:00 – 7:00pmLearn about, transcribe, and discuss racial covenants in Durham.Register here.
Thanks to an engaged group of community members, we have made great progress on our draft of a resolution, with an accompanying letter, for city and county leaders about racial covenants in Durham. If you have attended one of our workshops, or participated in the transcription process, we would greatly appreciate your input to help us progress in the work. Please join us for our monthly meetup on Monday, September 25th, […]
We are excited to share the newly launched Curriculum Kit, which contains pilot exercises, sample deeds, a slide deck and additional resources that K-12 educators can use for teaching students about racial covenant clauses in Durham. Project team members may be able to assist educators; please reach out [email protected] Download the full Curriculum Kit here! The Curriculum Kit was developed […]
With generous funding from the Civic Switchboard initiative, members of the Hacking into History (HIH) project team partnered with local educators in Durham, North Carolina in October 2021 to launch The Civic Educators Pilot project. How can educators use primary source documentation to facilitate place-based historical learning in classrooms? Do these approaches deepen understanding, particularly with difficult subject matter? These […]
With generous funding from the Civic Switchboard initiative, members of the Hacking into History (HIH) project team partnered with local educators in Durham, North Carolina in 2022 to launch The Civic Educators Pilot project. The purpose of the pilot was to explore how primary source materials can be used in classroom settings to support place-based historical understanding. Recruited participants from […]
Durham Public Schools educators are invited to apply to be part of the Hacking Into History (HIH) + Durham Public Schools Spring 2022 Civic Educator cohort. Educators will learn from and collaborate with the HIH Project Team to teach and develop curriculum related to the history of racial covenant clauses in Durham County property deeds. Eight fellows will be selected […]
Join DataWorks, NCCU School of Library & Information Sciences, the Durham County Register of Deeds, Chapel Hill Attorney, Andrew Wagner, and Tia Hall of Yinsome Group LLC for this free, online workshop. As part of the Hacking Into History project, participants will learn about the history of racially-restrictive land use practices in Durham County. The workshop will include volunteer training to review deeds for the presence […]
Join DataWorks, NCCU School of Library & Information Sciences, the Durham County Register of Deeds, Chapel Hill Attorney, Andrew Wagner, and Tia Hall of Yinsome Group LLC for this online workshop. As part of the Hacking Into History project, participants will learn about the history of racially-restrictive land use practices in Durham County. The workshop will include volunteer training to […]
In February of 2020, we were excited to learn that our project had been selected to receive a Civic Switchboard Field Project award! This was wonderful news as we had assembled a wonderful project team bringing knowledge, enthusiasm, and determination. Everyone was eager to contribute to the goals laid out in the project application. You can learn more about the […]
