WakeMed Oberlin Opens

Dr. Capehardt
Oberlin medical pioneers and professionals are honored in the main entrance of the recently opened WakeMed Oberlin multispecialty medical office at 505 Oberlin Road. A primary-care and urgent care practice at 601 Oberlin Road has also opened to serve the…Read More

Women of Change Award

Headshot of Sabrina Goode
On June 29, 2021, Friends of Oberlin Village Executive Director Sabrina Goode, and nine other extraordinary women, were inducted into the inaugural class of the City of Raleigh CORMuseum’s 2021 Woman of Change award, honoring women of Raleigh who have…Read More

Oberlin Village Beer

Photo of Oberlin Village Beer
Cheers to Trophy Brewing! The brewery created a limited edition Oberlin Village Double IPA. This beer was brewed to celebrate Black History Month and to help bring more attention to a little-known part of Raleigh’s history, Oberlin Village. The artwork…Read More

FOV Receives $5K, NC Cares Grant

Friends of Oberlin Village received a $5,000 NC CARES: Humanities Relief Grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for NC CARES has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid,…Read More

A Former Oberlin Resident Speaks

Mr. Harris grew up in Oberlin in the 1200 block near the junction of Oberlin Road and Chester Road. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/news/2020/08/20/dnc-platform–democrats-talk-racial-inequality…Read More

Tour | Oberlin Village | Raleigh Historic

Oberlin originated as a freedman’s village, established by blacks after Emancipation. Oral tradition holds that some purchased land from whites as early as the … https://raleighhistoric.org/tours/show/16…Read More

Freed slaves of Oberlin remembered …

November 24, 2017 It is a project called Oberlin Rising that has stretched me as an artist … community in Raleigh, N.C. Robert Willett rw******@**********er.com … https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article186354928.html…Read More