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Community Brief: N.C. Fund premiere

Mar 13, 2008 | Community | 0 Comments »

The premiere screening of the documentary Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the N.C. Fund will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Union Auditorium on the UNC campus. The showing will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and professors. The documentary tells the story of the anti-poverty North Carolina Fund established in 1963 by Gov. Terry Sanford. Fund employees worked to empower poor NC blacks and whites against a background of national racial unrest. The film was made by Durham’s Video Dialog Inc. and sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund.

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Contributing Editor Taylor Sisk's report on the state's mental health system.
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1. Lost in a lost system
2. A once-effective system spins out of control
3. Reform creates a bewildering system
4. Is our best enough?
5. Difficult decisions in a void

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