In the history of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which started way back in 1939, no team — from any school — had ever overcome a 19-point deficit to win a first-round game. Until now.
Anderson Clayton is the current chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. In the 2020 election cycle, she worked in Iowa as a field organizer for the presidential campaigns of Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, then for the Senate campaign of Amy McGrath in Kentucky. In 2021, Clayton returned to her home of Roxboro, NC and was elected chair of the Person County Democratic Party. In February 2023, Clayton was elected to a two-year term as chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. Under her leadership, the NCDP has run candidates in all 50 NC Senate districts and 118 out of 120 NC House of Representatives districts in the 2024 cycle.
This week’s show was a conversation with Judith Pacht, an award-winning poet who has become one of my favorites. I offer you here some quotes from poets about poetry.