When armed white supremacists came to campus, UNC refused to send an alert. When those same armed racists marched down Franklin Street five months later, UNC again refused to send an alert. We notified our community. Subscribe to get text alerts about racist activity at UNC.

One day you’re a child and then one day the lyrics to Landslide make sense and you’re crying in a car wash

UNC must take steps now to address the Black Student Movement’s demands. Make it clear to dangerous white supremacists that they are not welcome on campus. Renovate Unsung Founders to stop the routine disrespect for enslaved & free Black workers who built this campus.

This moment is sacred. All moments are sacred. They will not come again. What is offered in this moment for me to grow on will not be offered in exactly this way again.

Are you missing a deadline or is someone rushing your meaningful work?

U.S. Historians: Ancestry just added searchable Freedmen's Bureau Records: ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o…

I want more news like this—wlky.com/article/meade-…

'"Professor Bernstein said, 'That’s it. I’m retired,' and we watched him pack all of his papers into his bag and walk out of the classroom," a student said." Here's to you, Irwin Bernstein. slate.com/news-and-polit…

I asked my students how they would creatively re-stage Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutem and one of them suggested doing it in a limo like the Bachelor. Let me know when you're ready to license this idea and I'll put you in touch with my creative charges.

After two extensions, a slew of meetings, and a bunch of new brain medications, I JUST SENT MY THESIS TO MY COMMITTEE. Please celebrate with me by going outside for at least ten minutes today, as a treat.

We're hiring! Assist/Assoc Prof in Tech Policy. Areas of interest include content policy, algorithmic systems, misinformation, impact of tech on traditionally marginalized groups. I'm chairing the search, so feel free to reach out directly w/ questions. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19609

Henry Ford also paid for Square Dancing to be taught in all American schools to counteract the influence of Jazz, because he believed Jazz was a Jewish ploy to use Blacks to destroy "Anglo-Saxon" culture. Today, Square Dancing is the official dance of 28 states because of Ford

This is one of my favorite things. "Artur Rodzinski... bitterly denounced jazz yesterday, saying it led to "war degeneracy." He said he considered devotees of Sinatra "pitiful cases." Sinatra promptly replied that he had heard "some pretty awful classical music in my time."

Fine.

You know what, maybe we don't deserve nice things anymore.

I love that my advisor insisted I read Hillbilly Elegy and I claimed that I did not want to because it is trash and, now that I am reading it, I can (further) argue that it is trash.