Our New South

Levine Museum of the New South
Our New South

Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC) presents an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast hosted by journalist Kevin Blackistone and professor of history Robert Greene II who set out to discover the historical background on key societal issues in the South, providing a framework to understand the path forward. The show investigates how we got here, fostering conversations with changemakers seeking to make a difference in the South in order to educate, and provide an opportunity for understanding to inform our collective future.

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Nurturing Black Excellence

    In this week’s episode of Our New South, hosts Kevin Blackistone and Dr. Robert Green II discuss the influence that Historically Black Colleges and Universities have had on the South, and their impact today. Our guests on today’s episode are Dr. Walter Kimbrough, one of the nation’s most distinguished HBCU Presidents, who speaks about the current state of HBCUs during this historic period of increased enrollment and funding; and why more young students of all colors are choosing to attend HBCUs over Predominately White Institutions. Also, Dr. Cynthia Neal Spence, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Spelman College in Atlanta, and Director of the UNCF/Mellon Programs, speaks about the vast diversity of young women attending Spelman today, and the school’s mission to educate and inspire future leaders. Dr. Walter Kimbrough, nationally known as “The Hip Hop Prez,” is currently the Interim President of Talladega College, an HBCU located in Talladega, Alabama. Dr. Kimbrough formerly served as President of both Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Cynthia Spence is a lifelong Atlanta native who graduated from Spelman and has served the school in multiple capacities throughout her distinguished career. As the Director of the UNCF/Mellon Programs, she has been influential in creating programs to help United Negro College Fund students obtain doctorate degrees and become future faculty members at UNCF institutions. Donate to support this podcast! Learn more about Levine Museum of the New South here.

    54 min
  2. JAN 28

    Censoring Education

    In this episode of Our New South, Kevin Blackistone and Dr. Robert Greene II discuss the censorship of education in the South with Amanda Jones, a small-town, Louisiana librarian and self-proclaimed, "accidental activist," who became a nationally recognized figure due to her fight against censorship in Louisiana schools; and Robert Cassanello, a tenured professor of History at the University of Central Florida who took on the state of Florida in their fight against the teaching of critical race theory in state-funded schools. Amanda Jones is the author of the national bestseller 'That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America', which is part memoir, part manifesto, the story of a small-town Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity. Robert Cassanello, is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville. He has co-edited two books Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration (with Melanie Shell-Weiss) and Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (with Colin J. Davis). He produced film documentaries The Committee and Filthy Dreamers, and the public history podcast series A History of Central Florida, the Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast and The Art of the Review. Donate to support this podcast! Learn more about Levine Museum of the New South here.

    55 min
  3. 03/05/2024

    To The South, With Love

    On this episode of 'Our New South', show hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II celebrate Women's History Month discussing the preservation of history and culture in the South through poetry and fiction with three exceptional writers. Jesmyn Ward, a novelist and professor of English at Tulane University, is a two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, and was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2017. Beth Ann Fennelly, a professor at the University of Mississippi, was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, and in 2020, she was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Nikky Finney, a professor at the University of South Carolina and a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, and was recently appointed the Executive Director of the newly launched Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center in Columbia, South Carolina, a 21st century arts and cultural center named for her father. 'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation. 'Our New South' is produced by Next Chapter Podcasts, written and produced by Byron Hunter. The editor and sound designer is Kyle Murdock. The technical producer is Brian Douglas. Executive producers are Franky Abbott and Jeremiah Tittle. Special thanks to Levine team members Alexander Piñeres, Karen Sutton, and Cliff Whitfield. Please follow the show, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Learn more at ncpodcasts.com/ournewsouth and museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast

    1h 2m

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Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC) presents an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast hosted by journalist Kevin Blackistone and professor of history Robert Greene II who set out to discover the historical background on key societal issues in the South, providing a framework to understand the path forward. The show investigates how we got here, fostering conversations with changemakers seeking to make a difference in the South in order to educate, and provide an opportunity for understanding to inform our collective future.

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