February begins Black History month.  We will start with a 1 hour video titled "Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History" followed by discussion of his both his method, and his points.  There so so much to explore in Black History, and so much controversy in the news, particularly in Florida with Gov. DeSantis's war on […]

The North Carolina Botanical Garden is holding a Darwin Day Lecture on Sunday, February 12, from 2-3 pm. Karin Pfennig, Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a talk entitled “The hybrid in your genome: How recent advances in behavior and genetics are changing our view of Darwinian […]

Disability planning deals with who handles your personal and financial affairs if you incur a disability that leaves you unable to handle those affairs for yourself. There are two distinctly different disability plans. One is to rely on your family members, significant others, health care providers, or creditors to sue you seeking a judicial determination […]

Kristin Collins and Tyler Swanson of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation will be coordinating a facilitated viewing of the film "Racist Roots."  "The documentary" is a powerful 25-minute film which reveals the North Carolina death penalty’s deep entanglement with slavery, lynching, and racism — and inspires people to join the movement to transform the […]

We've long known about disparities in income, homeownership, college completion across race and ethnicity. But how did these differences come to be, and why have they persisted so long?  This talk will explore several competing explanations and then argue that the present disparities can be best understood and solved by identifying the network of systems […]