One on One: Smack Dab in the Middle
By May Martin Bryan Just when we thought Gene Nichol might take a breather, he brings us another...
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Columns
This Just In: The Community Speaks
This Just In — Last Saturday was a nightmare for the President of the United States. All across the country, there were massive peaceful demonstrations of Americans standing together within their own communities and declaring that we are in fact still the United States of America.
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Little Big Moments: How to Say Nothing at All with Many, Many Words
Head Coach enters the press room and sits down in front of the microphone to speak to reporters after a loss: “First, let me say, first of all, that everyone wins some, and loses some.
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Holding Court: UNC Aims to Revive Its Elite NBA Pipeline
In more recent years, UNC men’s basketball has fallen from a prominent perch in the NBA universe. Hubert Davis must help them return to it.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Unknowable Unknowns and Our Shared Future
Regardless of what challenges you face as you make your way in the unknowable future the best preparation you can invest in, so you can create advantage for you, your family, your business, is to develop your most creative and entrepreneurial self.
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The South Orange Dispatch: Celebrating First Responders
In 2017, Congress established National First Responders Day. Each October 28, we honor the paramedics, EMTs, firefighters, police and other career and volunteer rescuers who are the first to arrive on the scene in emergencies.
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For Chapel Hill Poet Laureate Donovan Livingston, Poetry ‘Builds Communities’
In the mid-nineties, Donovan Livingston, who is now Chapel Hill’s 2025-2026 Poet Laureate, heard a song that would change his life. Growing up with a grandmother who was a church choir director, Livingston was surrounded by music and fascinated by hip hop, but he wasn’t allowed to listen to rap music.
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This Just In: No Kings From Queens
This Just In — There once was a baby from Queens. He lacked strength and all self-esteem. He...
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Little Big Moments: Library Joy
The Southern Branch of the Orange County Library System in Carrboro has been open since February, but this week was my first visit. I was biding my time while my car was being repaired up the street. I was tempted to work in one of the cubicles on the far side but found myself tucking my laptop under my arm and meandering.
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Holding Court: UNC Football Players’ Attitude, Effort May Answer Key Belichick Questions
Attitude and effort. Coaches — in all sports, at all levels — like to remind their players that, in a world overflowing with outside influences, unpredictable variables and unexpected adversities, those are the two things that are always in their control. Good parents often remind their children, whether young or older, of the same concepts.
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