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What are the stories we are told and what are the stories we believe? In most newsrooms across the world there is a morning meeting where reporters discuss the most important stories of the day and which ones to put resources into covering. We live in a time where information comes at us fast. It’s hard to take a breath or know what to trust. Knowledge is power, and when you know better you do better. I want to explore the questions we need to be asking, the stories we need to hear and what exactly is the truth.

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November 10, 2022 • Charu Kumarhia/Kelly Dunbar • Season 10 • Episode 6

Kelly Dunbar is the Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher of the Year, representing North Carolina.

Kelly Dunbar comes on the show to talk about her area of research and fascination - Black women pioneers in North Carolina right after the American Civil War.

Dunbar’s Research Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wgds3aOKSYxvKzQ6m3zW_AgVNmfASurJDAQZiU-6b2c/edit

Must Reads from Dunbar:
Mary Othella Burnette, Lige of the Black Walnut Tree

Darwin J. Waters, "Life Beneath the Veneer: The Black Community in Asheville,
North Carolina from 1793 to 1900". (He is an amazing historian and has a radio show called "The Harvey and Waters Show".

Diana Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross, A Black Woman's History of the United States

Sarah Judson, "Civil Rights and Civic Health: African American Women's Public Health Work in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta" NWSA Journal

https://mountainx.com/arts/midwives-and-doulas-past-and-present-in-wnc/

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