D.G. Martin

Bland Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. His amazing talents have awed fellow North Carolinians for years.

“A Forgotten Migration” tells the story of how and why these segregation scholarships were awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre–Brown v. Board of Education (1954) era.

November is full of special days and holidays. This year one of the most important was Election...

My wife Harriet and I were grateful last month to be invited to the Tar Heel Tribute, an annual in-person event for Carolina veterans and typically includes a complimentary luncheon with a special gift and keynote presentation.

“May you live in interesting times.” Is that a blessing or a curse? Either way we’re in the middle of some strange, interesting, and memorable times.

What will the four national candidates do next — after the election? They will take the offices they won, assuming, of course that there is no coup or some other development that overturns the election results. The losers will follow a different path.

In September 2001, After the attack on the World Trade Center, I wrote the following in this...