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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Past Rhymes With Present Times: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Assault on Expertise
Dismissing carefully developed expertise as a threat to national values, the authoritarian assaults on long-serving experts in military affairs, government agencies, environmental management, judicial systems, immigrant rights, historical museums, public education, and medical research profoundly endanger the expanding knowledge and transnational exchanges that have shaped America’s global influence over the last 80 years.
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One on One: Local Tales for the Halloween Season
If you really want to get in the mood for Halloween, in a local kind of way, pick up “The Devil’s Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina,” a collection of stories and poems edited by Winston-Salem’s Ed Southern and published by Blair, a small press based in Durham.
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Carl Nordgren Featured ‘Grace, Grit & Hope’ Podcast Discussing New Book
Carl Nordgren, host of the Exploring Your Creative Genius on 97.9 The Hill and writer of the Exploring Your Creative Genius column on Chapelboro.com appears on the Grace, Grit & Hope podcast in October to discuss his upcoming book.
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