Our New South from Next Chapter Podcasts focuses on historical roots and directions for the future of US Southern cities.
The series offers a unique look at the evolution of the New South and how historic Southern cities, including Charlotte, North Carolina, are confronting complex issues facing communities across the South and nationwide. These range from equity in education and immigration to civil rights, racial equality, and socioeconomic mobility.
It features inspiring stories and conversations with unique perspectives on how Southern cities are addressing these challenging issues by highlighting their historical roots in addition to providing direction for the future.
Our New South is presented by the Levine Museum of the New South, which, for over 30 years, has sought to confront some of the most difficult issues facing New South cities. The hosts are Kevin Blackistone and Robert Greene II.
Kevin is a longtime national sports columnist now at The Washington Post, a panellist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, an occasional contributor to NPR and PBS, co-producer and co-writer of “Imagining the Indian,” an award-winning 2022 documentary on the history of and fight against mascoting Native Americans, and co-author of “A Gift for Ron,” a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls published in November 2009 that details his kidney donation to onetime teammate Ron Springs.
Robert is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He is also the Publications Chair of the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians and the incoming President of the African American Intellectual History Society. Dr Greene II has written extensively on the South, Black history and memory, and political history for publications such as Oxford American, The Nation, Dissent, Scalawag, and Jacobin, among others.
Dr Greene II is co-editor, along with Dr Tyler D. Parry, of the edited volume “Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina,” and he is currently at work on a book titled “The Newest South: African Americans and the Democratic Party, 1964-2000” about the relationship between Democratic Party leaders in the South and African American voters.
The first episode of Our New South will be available from Tuesday 23 January on all podcast platforms.
