Any North Carolinian worth their "First in Flight" license plate knows you can't play tonsil hockey in a Cook Out parking lot without an eclectic Spotify shuffle of mushy singer-songwriter ballads.
The Black Mama's Bail Out Action is an annual event designed to bail Black mothers and caregivers out of jail. Southerners on New Ground Durham has raised over $60,000 to fund this year’s Bail Out, which takes place on Thursday.
UNC professor Sharon Holland, along with two community organizers, spearheaded a mutual aid fund designed to help queer, trans and Indigenous people of color weather the pandemic.
A requiem, written in iambic pentameter, for Babes Who Blade, the Facebook group with over 7,000 members that moderators shut down this past weekend.
From Abercrombie & Fitch obsessions to the moment they learned about Facebook, students think back on the UNC of the 2000s.
Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” has generated lively social media discourse over the past weeks, and UNC students were quick to contribute. But not everyone in the Orange County community thinks this show is the cat’s meow. Pittsboro-based Carolina Tiger Rescue released a statement in early April criticizing “Tiger King” for inadequately documenting how big cats suffer in the cub-petting industry. "While we are glad that the issue of captive big cats in the U.S. is currently at the forefront of popular culture, we would like to refocus the conversation toward the problem rather than the story," Carolina Tiger Rescue wrote in the statement.
Over spring break, UNC professor Matt Randal O'Wain traveled with his wife from their Durham home to their farm in West Virginia, as they typically do when classes aren‘t in session. Now, a stay-at-home order has them stranded there, and O'Wain treks to a nearby McDonald’s three days a week to teach his classes.
An admin for “Kevin G’s Big L Meme Self-Quarantine (UNC)” said the Facebook group's activity peaks around Duke games. When he checked the stats recently, curious how engagement had fared amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he found a spike over three times as tall as the others, and he attributed this activity to the student body’s collective boredom.
“The biggest rule in improv is ‘Yes, and …,’” said UNC senior Emma Haseley. “So, if you say something, you just have to roll with it and keep going. It’s really about engaging in the world that you’re in.” Haseley said that historically, the main comedy troupes on campus have been white male-dominated, but the comedy scene at UNC has become more inclusive in recent years.
Many of UNC's arts organizations had competitions and performances this spring that have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the groups try to figure out what to do until they can perform in person again, they hope people will still connect with them online.
