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• Signe Waller Foxworth, who continued social justice work for decades after the Greensboro Massacre, has died; Greensboro News & Record; 12/05/2021
• Slave deeds project spawns statewide database with over 50,000 names (ABC 13 News; October 22, 2021)
• NC County Deed Books Help Build Database Of Enslaved People (WFAE; September 6, 2021)
• 'They were people': A unique project aims to tell the stories of N.C.'s enslaved people (Greensboro News & Record; August 30, 2021)
• Unlocking stories of slavery, Wake County Register of Deeds and Shaw research history of enslaved people locally (WRAL; August 26, 2021)
• UNCG Receives Grant to Expand Digital Library on American Slavery (UNCG News; May 25, 2021)
• The First "Virtual Stop" on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education; March 11, 2020)
• NC's Slave Deeds Tell Stories Of 'People, Not Property' (WUNC The State Of Things; March 10, 2020)
• Once a Plantation, Stagville Helps Families Find Enslaved Ancestors (IndyWeek; Feb 26, 2020)
• 'The Slave Deeds of Guilford County': New video series focuses on community's past (Greensboro News & Record; Feb 20, 2020)
• From 19th century saloons to modern breweries, exploring Greensboro’s vibrant downtown beer scene (Fox 8 News; Jan 22, 2021)
• 'People Not Property' Aims to Create Statewide Database of Slave Deeds in North Carolina (Next City; Jan 22, 2020)
• Triad beer history on tap (Business N.C. Daily Digest; Jan 16, 2020)
• The First Southern State To Prohibit Booze Now Drowning In Craft Beer (WUNC/The State of Things; Jan 15, 2020)
• Fermenting Revitalization on Main Street- NC Beer is Hopping—Universities Give It A Lift (UNC System; Oct 09, 2019)