Billy Porter has joined the Oscar-qualified documentary short, “Freeman Vines,” as executive producer.

Freeman Vines worked on guitars out of a workshop in Fountain, North Carolina. He spoke with WUNC on Dec. 4, 2024. A prominent guitar maker and blues musician from Pitt County has died. Freeman Vines ...

This is the latest installment in our Main Street NC series from the WUNC Politics Podcast. We're visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the positives going on in their ...

EXCLUSIVE: Switchboard, a platform that mixes distributing documentary and live-action shorts with longform journalism, is preparing for its first Oscar campaign after picking up four titles.

This Fall, the Switchboard team united four Oscar-qualified short films: Freeman Vines, Poreless, Rat Rod, and Saving Superman -- for a collective awards campaign. Together, these films have screened ...

A North Carolina artist is creating more awareness of Black culture in America by turning something racially violent into something meaningful and impactful, and cementing himself in Black history ...

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood,... Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, ...