Join NC Humanities on April 29 for a night of poetry and conversation with Jaki Shelton Green, Fred Joiner, and CJ Suitt in celebration of National Poetry Month! Visit bit.ly/2QSYOT7 to register. You do not want to miss this! NC DNCR Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture @CarrboroTownGov

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2,000-year-old marble head of Augustus Octavian unearthed cnn.com/style/article/…

After conservative criticism, #UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist tenured position | NC Policy Watch #ncpol ncpolicywatch.com/2021/05/19/pw-…

Classical guitarist Soren Boedker Madsen’s excellent cover of Morricone’s “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” theme youtu.be/yNNXfeg1V2k

🍻Great deep dive into the complicated & fascinating anthropology/sociology of drinking by ⁦Kate Julian⁩ in ⁦The Atlantic⁩ theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The history of queer liberation is often talked about as distinct from the history of the Left. But in the first half of the 20th century, queer people were abundant among US leftists — decades before the rise of an organized mass movement for gay rights. jacobinmag.com/2021/06/aaron-…

UNC Alum David Zucchino Won a Pulitzer Prize for His Book on the 1898 Wilmington Massacre indyweek.com/news/unc-alum-…

Things are falling apart at the W. B. Yeats Society. Here's how you can help. lithub.com/things-are-fal… via Literary Hub

Coding glitches need to show up in more science fiction. "Don't forget, Captain, the phasers only fire if we take all the food replicators offline. Starfleet issued a patch, but it ejects the warp core."

When you just can’t take the original idea or the hot takes that will follow

FREE EBOOKS! ENDS TOMORROW! For the last week of our STUDENT READING sale, we've made 5 foundational texts free to download! Includes the unmissable How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, as well as Nancy Fraser, Jacques Derrida, and more! versobooks.com/blogs/5165-stu…

In 1958, the Lumbee routed the KKK - & no known Klan rallies have taken place since — Battle of Hayes Pond #IndigenousPeoplesDay en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…

Can we all just appreciate the incredible vibes of my new employer taking an absolutely wild one-star review and making it into a t-shirt???

Support Striking Kellogg's Workers! Local 252G gofund.me/4ab16577 ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

@abandonedameric just wanted you to know you were immortalized on my FB feed for your excellent take on poor kids trick or treating.

A solid hour of writing before the leaf blowers began -- a good omen for today, hah #amwriting #NaNoWriMo

An in-progress list of books by Native and Indigenous writers, courtesy of Elissa Washuta. lithub.com/here-are-252-b…

😅🏆 eked out the win just barely #NaNoWinner2021 -- lots more work to do #amwritingfantasy