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Participants of UNC Musical Empowerment's outdoor senior recital pictured last year in the Gene Stroud Community Rose Garden. Photo by Alex Berenfeld.

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UNC Musical Empowerment continues free music lessons for children, even online

By Lily Chubb | Sep. 14

Musical Empowerment's UNC chapter breaks down financial barriers to music lessons and instrument access for K-12 students, and continued provided lessons — online — during the pandemic. Involved students value the opportunity to share their love for music and be mentors. “I really like being able to use what I've learned about guitar and teach younger people to have an interest in music,” mentor Isabel Morris said.

The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Symposium's fourth event was hosted on Zoom on Thursday. The event explained instances of environmental racism.

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Race, Racism and Racial Equity Symposium hosts fourth seminar for UNC community

By Lily Chubb | Sep. 12

The symposium focused on systemic racism and environmental, health and transpirational inequalities in the local Chapel Hill community and broader United States. “Come in with the assumption that the way we built this system will marginalize community members, whether it’s by race, income, ethnicity, gender identity — it's there,” one of the panelists said.

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Can't agree on who gets aux? There's an app for that, started by UNC students

By Lily Chubb | Aug. 16

Meet the UNC students behind the new app Aux, a way to create a unique listening experience where everyone gets a say in the music.

Artwork by Hannah Gettes, a former Orange County school graduate who died in February, is on display at Hannah's Hope art exhibit at Margaret Lane Gallery in Hillsborough, NC. Photo courtesy of Mary Knox.

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'Hannah's Hope': Hillsborough gallery hosts art exhibit in honor of former OCS student

By Lily Chubb | Jun. 16

The life and artwork of Hannah Gettes, a former Orange County Schools student, are honored through the "Hannah's Hope" exhibit.

Pieces from the Art Unblocked 2021 exhibition hang on the walls of the Block Gallery in the Raleigh Municipal Building on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2021. The exhibition feautures works of art created by emerging and established artists with disabilities.

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Art Unblocked exhibit aims to amplify the voices of disabled artists in NC

By Lily Chubb | Apr. 13, 2021

“We all have different issues that we have to deal with and I think that’s what Arts Access is about: making everything accessible, and realizing that we all come from a different point with our health and our lives,” artist Kathryn DeMarco said.

Visitors at the North Carolina Museum of Art explore the Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibit. Photo courtesy of the NCMA.

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North Carolina Museum of Art shows mummy exhibit for the first time

By Lily Chubb | Mar. 16, 2021

“What I like about it is that it's much, much more than just mummies,” Rocheleau said. “It's really about people: about their religious beliefs, their hopes in trying to achieve the afterlife, being reborn in the afterlife.”

Ryan Downs, 45, picks up books outside of the library on Oct. 21, 2020. The Chapel Hill Public Library has been awarded with a federal grant that funds computers, increased wifi coverage, and multilingual assistance throughout Chapel Hill.

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Friends of Chapel Hill Public Library celebrates National Library Lovers Month

By Lily Chubb | Feb. 18, 2021

Every Saturday during February, there will be a table set up at the front entrance to the library where current members of the Friends of Chapel Hill Public Library can pick up a free book, and new members can join.

UNC student Reiley Baker stands among other volunteers at A Preferred Women's Health Center of Charlotte, only a few yards from the group of evangelical, anti-abortion activists who protest daily outside the clinic.

Atticus Sopp

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Students use TikTok as a platform for pro-choice activism

By Lily Chubb | Feb. 8, 2021

“It goes a long way because people don't know sometimes that this stuff happens to this extent, like how extreme it is,” Baker said. “Through TikTok we've gotten so much support and so many donations to our organization and other people to get involved in their area.”