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On Oct. 7, 1978, Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford raced Police Chief John Blackwood across Carrboro, Blackwood in a car and Drakeford on a bicycle. Drakeford won — all thanks to the bike paths he had established in the town.
RALEIGH — Although he's barely settled into life on the UNC men's ice hockey team, first-year forward Drew Smith found himself playing in one of the team's biggest games of the season.
Just two weeks ago, wildfires tore through Los Angeles, reducing thousands of homes to ash and forcing mass evacuations. As insurers now pull out of high-risk areas, many Californians find themselves unable to afford coverage — some going without any at all.
UNC’s Department of Communication’s “A Celebration of Queer Life and Love” event will be held on Valentine’s Day in Swain Hall and will feature performances by local poets Destiny Hemphill and CJ Suitt.
While most of Chapel Hill was abuzz with excitement for the UNC vs. Duke game, local reggae-lovers gathered in Cat's Cradle — but certainly not for basketball. On Saturday, the lively, tucked away corner of Carrboro pulsed with reggae beats from performers Mickey Mills and Steel, Jamrock, Zion Project and DJ Ras J for the 25th Annual Bob Marley Bash.
Welcome back to Heel Talk, where AV Editor Natalie Bradin recaps the biggest local news stories with colleagues Kshitiz Adhikari, Lauren Zola and Lucy Wu. In this episode, the group discusses the appointment of a new trustee, the latest Regional Principal of the Year and the grand opening of a Tree Museum down the road in Pittsboro.
School of Rock is a music education program with franchises all over the world. It currently has over 350 schools and 62,000 students enrolled in the program. The school provides music lessons after school for all ages, but primarily kids and teens. The Chapel Hill franchise first opened in 2017.
On the first day of sixth grade in 1966, Horace Johnson Jr. and his father Horace Johnson, the first Black mayor of Hillsborough, drove past Central High School — the all-Black school Horace Johnson Jr. attended until fifth grade.
In late January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing hiring of federal civilian employees. In alignment with this order, the Department of Justice revoked job offers for the prestigious Attorney General’s Honors Program, impacting third-year law students and graduates planning to work as federal attorneys through the program.
Laura Saavedra Forero describes herself as an activist before anything else.
Although environmental activists have been fighting for change for more than 40 years, environmental racism persists. No matter where you look in the world, marginalized and low-income communities are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards.
To professor Matt Andrews, race and basketball go hand-in-hand.
The No. 15 North Carolina women’s basketball team (20-4, 8-3 ACC) escaped Stanford (11-10, 3-7), 69-67, on Sunday afternoon in Maples Pavilion.
The University of North Carolina enrolled its first Black undergraduate students in 1955, but the first Black varsity athlete didn’t take the field for eight more years.
Welcome back to another episode of Heel Talk, where AV editor Natalie Bradin recaps the biggest local stories with colleagues N'Nia Brickhouse, Daley Hooten and Claire Kwon. In today's episode, the group unpacks UNC potentially evaluating admission essays with AI technology, North Carolina joining a lawsuit against President Trump's birthright citizenship order and three UNC a cappella groups competing in a national championship.
In this episode of Hark the Pod, Sports Editor Caroline Wills sits down with assistants Emma Moon and Matthew Maynard to break down an unexpected victory — The Daily Tar Heel defeating The Duke Chronicle last Friday. The group also discusses their score predictions for one of the biggest rivalries in college basketball — the famed UNC v. Duke matchup taking place this Saturday.
It’s a story I’ve heard time and time again from friends. You walk into the doctor's office to see your body mass index being pointed to you on a screen. This ratio of height to weight categorizes you as overweight but not obese, but you have a healthy diet and go on a run a couple times a week. You wonder what you can do to change that label but also why you would have to in the first place.
UNC alumnus Bob Young is nothing short of a victor — a man who propelled Carolina basketball to a national championship in 1957 —but whose legacy extends far beyond the court.
A recent study from Gallup showed that employee engagement in the U.S. reached a 10-year low in 2024, with only 31 percent of employees reporting being engaged at work.
Just over 50 years ago, UNC professor Dr. Michael Bleyman founded the Carolina Tiger Rescue. He served as executive director until he passed away in 1996. That year, the rescue revised its mission from a captive breeding facility for carnivores that were threatened or endangered, to a sanctuary for these animals. The rescue started offering public tours of the property 20 years ago.
