Press Articles

Black, Blind, and Successful: The Story of a Fighter
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm01/bm0103/bm010304.htm

Cousins establish Dodson, Dotson and Hairston Family Scholarship for southern West Virginia students
https://www.marshall.edu/ucomm/2018/07/03/cousins-establish-dodson-dotson-and-hairston-family-scholarship-for-southern-west-virginia-students/

A Family In Black And White Meet The Hairstons, Black And White
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-family-in-black-and-white

1,400 Hairstons Honor Kinship Born of Slavery
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/us/1400-hairstons-honor-kinship-born-of-slavery.html

A Hairston Celebration: Films explore history, legacy of black slaves and white descendants from NC and VA plantations
https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/a-hairston-celebration-films-explore-history-legacy-of-black-slaves/article_bd3776ca-eb2e-53b8-bb8e-fd24b28829f0.html

Ancestors, Old Days Recalled in an Annual Ritual
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/07/10/ancestors-old-days-recalled-in-an-annual-ritual/ec04b1e4-a42a-4ec2-b970-4c45811f2821/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.44796eec7b10

Hairston Clan will gather to honor its own
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/NC/20080205/News/605115706/LD

FAMILY BRINGS ITS BRANCHES TOGETHER
https://www.greensboro.com/family-brings-its-branches-together/article_eb5e3cb4-9e42-5d99-9422-a1af5b0fd064.html

Yesterday: a 1988 reunion at Cooleemee Plantation
http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/02/09/yesterday-a-1988-reunion-at-cooleemee-plantation

Families Uncover Old Secrets, New Roots
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-29-mn-51180-story.html

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
http://www.c-span.org/video/?122057-1/the-hairstons-american-family-black-white

Jerry Jr. and The Amazing Hairstons
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jerry-jr-and-the-amazing-hairstons