By Levine Museum of the New South
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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
On the final episode of the season of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss environmental justice with DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren, a Special Projects Coordinator for the Catawba Cultural Preservation Project, and Dominique Burkhardt, a senior attorney at Earthjustice.
'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
On this episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss Southern cities' approach to business and sports with Kieth Cockrell, President of Bank of America Charlotte and Head of Sports Sponsorships, Omar Jorge, CEO of Compare Foods Supermarkets and Chairman of Aurora Grocery Group, as well as Clayton Trutor, the author of Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta-and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports.
'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
On this episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss education and equality with Congressman Bobby Scott, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Arthur Griffin, as well as social impact strategist and former Charlotte resident Decker Ngongang.
'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
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
'Our New South' co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss the legacy of discriminatory policies which have displaced and disenfranchised communities in the South with Lori Thomas, the Executive Director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and Charlotte Regional Data Trust, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Arthur Griffin, and Maurice Robinson, Assistant Professor of History/Political Science at Alabama State University.
'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
On this episode of Our New South, co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss the power of elections and voting in the South with former South Carolina House Representative Bakari Sellers, the President & CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson, and Aimy Steele, Executive Director of The New North Carolina Project.
'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
On this episode of Our New South, co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss how we preserve history and culture in the South with Stewart Gray, the Director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, Robin Waites, Executive Director of Historic Columbia based in South Carolina, Kevin Mitchell, Chefscholar at The Culinary Institute of Charleston, and Charlotte-based musician Harvey Cummings II.
'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
In this episode, Our New South hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II discuss immigration in the South with Sil Ganzò, the Founder and Executive Director of Charlotte-based non-profit ourBRIDGE for Kids, Colton Bane, the Immigrant Justice Program Director at Community Legal Center in Memphis, Tennessee, and Daniel Valdez, the Chief External Affairs Officer at Welcoming America which is based in Decatur, Georgia.
At the conclusion of the episode, we hear comments from Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, New York Times columnist, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Follow her work at tressiemc.com.
'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
In this episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II speak with Sherri Chisolm, the Executive Director of Leading on Opportunity in Charlotte, North Carolina, about The Chetty Report and her work to level the playing field on social and economic mobility and the recent migration of people of color back to the south. We also welcome Brian Straessle, Executive Director of The Sycamore Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, to discuss the challenges Southern cities have faced with respect to economic opportunity, and the work they are doing illuminate the issue, and rectify it in Tennessee and beyond.
At the conclusion of the episode, we hear the wise words of Arthur Griffin who serves on the Board of Mecklenberg County Commissioners, and is the former Chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, as well as Lori Thomas, who is the Executive Director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and Charlotte Regional Data Trust.
'Our New South' is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South with thanks to the generous support of The Knight Foundation.
The series 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
In the premiere episode of 'Our New South', co-hosts Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II speak with Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, New York Times columnist, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow, about the concept of the "New South" and why she keeps her eyes on the South as an indicator of where the nation is heading. Follow her work at tressiemc.com.
At the conclusion of the episode, we hear the words of poet Nikky Finney who is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice; The World Is Round; and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also Director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center.
'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
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
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