Column: Chapel Hill must be the place
“Home is where I want to be,” begins Talking Heads’ famous song “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).” I recently heard this song on a road ...
Read More »“Home is where I want to be,” begins Talking Heads’ famous song “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).” I recently heard this song on a road ...
Read More »Almost every time I turn in a midterm, I feel a sense of relief. I don’t like talking about the test, I don’t want to hear the answers — I turned ...
Read More »From the moment I landed in London, I’ve felt the need to calm the inner tourist that I know makes up probably 80 percent of who I am. I think museums ...
Read More »There hasn’t been a single interaction in my life with the police where the first thought in my mind wasn’t how to look less threatening. How to ensure ...
Read More »“You’ve got to learn to walk to class by yourself.” That’s the first, dumbest and best advice I got about college.
Read More »Last month, I attended a town hall meeting on police brutality and campus safety hosted by the Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Outreach Committee ...
Read More »There are very few good reasons to be a Daily Tar Heel columnist. It has little impact, no financial return and a bad photo of you that is widely disseminated ...
Read More »This past weekend, I underwent some of the initial stages necessary in becoming a full-fledged Brit: traveling outside of London and, most importantly, ...
Read More »“The price of freedom.” I don’t know about you, but when I hear a phrase like that, I think of our military. The powerful idea of some kind of transactional ...
Read More »On Friday, we did something important.
Read More »In 2013, Egypt suffered a military coup and their president was arrested. Many Muslims blamed the Christian minority — at least, enough Muslims believed ...
Read More »On July 14, I wrote a column published in this newspaper titled “Delrawn, Alton, Philando, Unknown.” In the column, I discussed the four Black men ...
Read More »Charlotte is only a two-hour drive from our campus. Of the approximately 80 percent of UNC students who hail from North Carolina, many come from Charlotte. ...
Read More »I am from Charlotte. I have two Black teenage brothers in Charlotte. I have a Black father in Charlotte. I have Black cousins and uncles and friends in ...
Read More »My mom tells me constantly, “You can’t do it all.” She’s been saying this to me for years — slow down, take care of yourself, some things will ...
Read More »I want to sincerely advocate for and encourage moments of aloneness.
Read More »To be a journalist means you need to develop some degree of legal expertise.
Read More »It’s confusing to think about something as unpredictable as a dream arriving on a set schedule. And yet my subconscious manages to procure the same ...
Read More »If we are serious about addressing rape culture, more men must embrace being a feminist as part of their identity.
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