Campus communications group visits Black Wall Street, Hayti, West End and other sites On a bright, cool Friday morning, nearly 40 university communicators got on the bus for a look into Black Durham’s ...

Two Durham sites have received national recognition for their importance to the city’s Black American heritage. St. Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Harriet Tubman YWCA are ...

And like many institutions, its history doubles as the story of the community around it—Hayti, Black Wall Street, Durham, and beyond. Stanford L. Warren traces its origins to Dr. Aaron McDuffie ...

Brenda McCormick said her family has lived in Hayti since the 1920s and was displaced during urban renewal when their home ...

Both are in the Hayti neighborhood, a once-thriving district dubbed “Black Wall Street” that was largely destroyed by urban renewal and the construction of the Durham Freeway. The original St ...