This Just In: The Spirit of ’76
This Just In — Fifty years out, I finally made it to a high school class reunion. I had to think about it.
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Columns
Little Big Moments: Talkin’ Baseball
I love to listen to baseball games on the radio. It’s a habit I picked up after college when I was working part-time jobs to scrape rent together and couldn’t afford cable.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Ballads, Narratives and Power
In 1703 Andrew Fletcher, a Scottish politician and patriot, wrote “If a man were permitted to make the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.”
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Never Too Far: College Sports Cannot Escape the Fight for Voting Rights
No representation. No recruitment. No revenue. The NAACP argues that universities cannot continue profiting from Black athletic talent while states simultaneously weaken Black voting representation through unconstitutional districting and voter suppression efforts.
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Little Big Moments: Reason Enough
Recently, my faith community, Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church, has partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a national nonprofit that buys medical debt from creditors.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Our Political Imaginations
One way to consider my book ‘Common Ground for US’: it’s an effort to rekindle our political imagination. Once upon a time it was remarkable.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Learn How To Stop the Bleed
Be a lifesaver! Know how to control bleeding. Follow along with this month’s column from SORS for advice to help a bleeding person until EMS arrives.
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The Governor’s Column: Honoring Our Servicemembers
Throughout May, we are celebrating our brave servicemembers during Military Appreciation Month. For generations, North Carolinians have proudly served our nation during times of conflict and peace.
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This Just In: Memorial Day
This Just In — On Monday, we pause, much too briefly, to remember those who died in service to the nation … those who put their lives on the line and didn’t come home, as well as those who came home grievously damaged and injured and died from those injuries — some of them decades later after immense suffering.
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Little Big Moments: Guitar Strings
Like many listeners, I was moved by Eric Church’s commencement address at UNC. He struck a particular chord with me because I learned to play guitar in college after a period in my life when I’d lost my way or, as Church described, “fell out of tune.”
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