INC NEWS - Durham: A Self-Portrait -- today on State of Things (91.5 at noon)

[John Schelp]

Today on WUNC's The State of Things (91.5 at noon)

Durham: A Self-Portrait
Frank Stasio and Katy Barron
Tuesday, November 27 2007

A clandestine basketball game played between white and
black college students; a deep understanding among
black and white elites that allowed each community to
flourish; and, a Jewish man elected mayor in 1950. It
was unheard of for such events to occur in the Jim
Crow South, but they happened in Durham. A new
documentary explores Durham’s emergence,
post-Reconstruction, as a model city of the new South.
Filmmaker Steve Channing joins host Frank Stasio to
discussion the social and political underpinnings of
Durham’s remarkable history.