The Charlotte Observer recently produced a documentary about the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte. It accompanies a retrospective article the newspaper published remembering the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte. See: Brooklyn was the center of black life in Charlotte. Until the bulldozers arrived.
This video has been added to the Brooklyn Oral History site that grew out of Dr. Karen Flint’s “Oral History and Memory ” class at University of North Carolina, Charlotte with two sets of graduate students in 2004 and 2007.
Jeff Gillman, the Director of the Botanical Gardens, hosts a podcast that investigates the surprising history, biology, and culture behind the plants we eat.
From apples and artichokes to digitalis and peyote, Jeff and co-host Cindy Proctor, an instructor at Central Piedmont Community College, discuss the plants that we interact with on a daily basis and how they can sustain us, intoxicate us, cure us of disease, and even kill us.
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