Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023

The Town of Carrboro’s MILK Day event will take place Saturday, January 14th, 2023, from 1 to 3 pm at Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street. Check back soon for details. With the theme, Finding Our Way Forward, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Martin Luther...
What is the Chinese New Year 2023 Animal? — Rabbit

What is the Chinese New Year 2023 Animal? — Rabbit

Chinese New Year 2023 is a Year of the Rabbit, more specifically, Water Rabbit, starting from January 22nd, 2023, and lasting until February 9th, 2024. Recent/upcoming years of the Rabbit are 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023, and 2035. If you were born in one...
Book Discussion in Honor of Black History Month

Book Discussion in Honor of Black History Month

On Tuesday, Feb. 7th from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, the Orange County Office of Equity & Inclusion and the Orange County Library are hosting a book discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. A light lunch will be served and the event is free...
Pauli Murray Awards

Pauli Murray Awards

The Orange County Human Relations Commission announces that the 33rd Annual Pauli Murray Awards will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2023, from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Whitted Building at 300 West Tryon St,  Hillsborough, NC 27278. The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline...
52 Years Later, UNC Installs Memorial to James Cates

52 Years Later, UNC Installs Memorial to James Cates

Exactly 52 years to the day after James Lewis Cates, Jr. died on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, the university is dedicating a memorial to honor his life and acknowledge his death. Then just 22 years-old, Cates — a Black man — was killed in 1970 in an act of racial...
Black-owned Businesses in U.S. Cities

Black-owned Businesses in U.S. Cities

According to the Federal Reserve, in 2019, the median net worth of white families was $188,200—7.8 times that of their Black peers, at $24,100. That wealth gap translates to many other disparities, including in business ownership, which is heavily influenced by...