Daily Archives: March 10, 2025

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Mike Wiley On Telling the Story of Booker T. Spicely

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Talking with the playwright about “Changing Same,” his one-man play about Booker T. Spicely, a Black WWII soldier murdered by a Durham bus driver in 1944 in a blatant act […]

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‘Changing Same’: new play tells story of U.S. Army private killed after resisting Jim Crow laws

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By Leoneda Inge, Rachel McCarthy Published November 7, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST In 1944, a Black Army private was shot and killed in Durham, NC by a white bus driver. […]

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Durham Premiere of “Fire of Freedom” Spotlights Historical Black Leader

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By Sarah Rogers on March 14, 2022 CONTACT: Sarah Rogers (919) 660-3035 sarah.rogers@duke.edu   DURHAM, N.C. — Abraham Galloway was a freedom fighter. Born near Wilmington, N.C. in 1837, he […]

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Exposing America’s Hallowed Ground

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Story by Corbie Hill May 21, 2023 A jet-lagged Charlie Thompson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gazed out over the Reflecting Pool. Days earlier he had […]

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