Danita Mason-Hogans is a native of Chapel Hill for seven generations on both sides of her family. At Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Mason-Hogans works with veteran Civil Rights activists to document their experiences and works with school systems, universities, activists and historians to document local and national history from the “inside out” and from the “bottom up”. She is also the daughter of Chapel Hill Nine member, David Mason, Jr. and leader on the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force.
Watch Danita's amazing TedTalk: Why the Way We Tell Stories and Document History is a Social Justice Issue.
Danita Mason-Hogans has hosted seven Episodes.
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10: Voices - Zan Coleman, Cortland Gilliam, and CJ Suitt
August 7th, 2023 | 25 mins 10 secs
James Cates Scholar Zan Coleman in conversation with Chapel Hill Poets Laureate, CJ Suitt and Cortland Gilliaml.
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7: What Comes Next. Silent Sam part 3
December 19th, 2019 | 23 mins 25 secs
Join Chapel Hill Public Library staff and community members as we uncover the untold histories of Chapel Hill, from the inside out and bottom up.
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6: James Cates. Silent Sam part 2
November 18th, 2019 | 37 mins 45 secs
Join Chapel Hill Public Library staff and community members as we uncover the untold histories of Chapel Hill, from the inside out and bottom up. In our first season, we are exploring the histories behind the monuments and markers of Chapel Hill.
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5: An Old Argument. Silent Sam part 1
November 4th, 2019 | 30 mins 31 secs
Join Chapel Hill Public Library staff and community members as we uncover the untold histories of Chapel Hill, from the inside out and bottom up. In our first season, we are exploring the histories behind the monuments and markers of Chapel Hill.
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3: Remembering Our Dead
October 7th, 2019 | 30 mins 55 secs
cemeteries, chapel hill, chapel hill history, community history, graveyards, old chapel hill cemetery, slave cemeteries
Join Chapel Hill Public Library staff and community members as we uncover the untold histories of Chapel Hill, from the inside out and bottom up. In our first season, we are exploring the histories behind the monuments and markers of Chapel Hill.
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2: Young, Gifted and Black
September 23rd, 2019 | 19 mins 31 secs
In June, 2019 we honored the lives of two Chapel Hillians whose names were added to the Peace and Justice Plaza marker in downtown Chapel Hill.
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1: Holy Week Fast
September 9th, 2019 | 21 mins 2 secs
- Chapel Hill. Four young men decided to stage a hunger strike on the lawn of the old post office on Franklin Street. How the actions of civil rights demonstrators lead to the creation of Peace and Justice Plaza.