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Howard Bryant is a prolific baseball writer on a variety of topics affecting the game. His most celebrated works include “Full Dissidence: Notes From an Uneven Playing Field,” “The Heritage: Black Athletes”, “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron,” “Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball” and “Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.”

He is a two-time Casey Award winner (“Shut Out,” 2003, “The Last Hero,” 2011) for best baseball book of the year, and a 2003 finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research Seymour Medal. “The Heritage” was the recipient of the 2019 Nonfiction Award from the American Library Association’s Black Caucus and the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazard Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African American Studies awarded by the Popular Culture Association.

He has been senior writer for ESPN since 2007 and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” since 2006. In 2017, he served as the guest editor for the “Best American Sports Writing” anthology.

Previously, Bryant worked at “The Washington Post,” “Boston Herald,” “The Record” (Hackensack, N.J.), the “The Mercury News” and the “Oakland Tribune.”

He has won numerous awards, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 2016 and 2018, both for commentary, and earned the 2016 Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. In addition, Bryant has appeared in several documentaries, including “Baseball: The Tenth Inning and Jackie Robinson,” both directed by Ken Burns, and “Major League Legends: Hank Aaron,” produced by the Smithsonian and Major League Baseball.

Roses are red, violets are blue, free photos on the Rail Trail for your sweetie and you!

Have your photo taken by a professional photographer at the Confetti Hearts Mural, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Here's what you need to know 👇

❤️ Get your photo taken for free by local photographer Collin Mairena at the Confetti Hearts Mural from 11am-2pm on Saturday, February 11. You'll be able to access your photos online here after the event.

❤️ The Confetti Hearts Mural by Evelyn Henson is located in the Design Center, next to Petit Philippe.

❤️ Expect live music from local musicians throughout the event

❤️ The first 100 people at the event can receive a free flower from Bookout Blooms

❤️ The Valentine's Day photoshoot on the Rail Trail is presented by the Rail Trail and U.S. Bank


BONUS: Join Professor Anne Low with ArtWalks CLT and AxlRox for a one hour and 15-minute guided lovers-themed art tour, which ends at the Confetti Hearts Mural at 1:15pm!

An elite group of Charlotte’s top musicians have banded together to perform an evening of classic Progressive Rock for the benefit of Make-A-Wish Foundation. Imagine a single concert of songs by Dream Theater, ELP, Frank Zappa, Kansas, Kate Bush, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Rush, Steely Dan and more!

Make-A-Wish grants thousands of unique wishes each year for children with critical illnesses. It's truly amazing what wishes can do. A wish renews hope, uplifts spirits and encourages the belief in the impossible.

Join us for The Big Game on Sunday, 2/12/23, and help us do some good for Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in the process! Here’s what you can expect for the day:

- Reserve your table for the game for up to 8 guests (call the brewery or email events@divinebarrel.com)
- Tailgating Games Tournaments
- Head Brewer, Ben Dolphens, grilling burgers & dogs for donations
- Purchase SB Squares for charity
- Offering buckets of lager
- Purchase a case of beer receive 10% off + 4 koozies
- Raffle for signed cleats & gloves from Carolina Panthers Center, Bradley Bozeman

We’re asking for cash donations and canned food donations for Second Harvest. If you’re able to donate for a plate of food, SB Squares, or just to be kind, you’ll be entered into the raffle for Bradley Bozeman’s signed cleats & gloves. All proceeds from grilling, SB Squares and the raffle will be donated to Second Harvest!

February is Heart Month, and we're so excited to partnered with our friends at The HEARTest Yard again for an awesome pop up market surrounding the release of our amazing collab, Here Wit Heart, with Free Range Brewing as well! The fun goes down on Friday, 2/17/23, from 4-9pm! Carolina Smash Truck will be on-site serving dinner! Here's who's popping up with us:

The HEARTest Yard
Kendra Scott
Camp LUCK
LifeShare Carolinas
Tiff's Treats

A portion of sales from vendors will be donated directly to The HEARTest Yard, and we'll even have a button for you to donate as well when you check out!

The Independent Picture House, Charlotte’s only non-profit community cinema, is proud to announce its first annual Black Film Series, which will take place during February's Black History Month. The series will be presented in partnership with three screening partners who helped shape the programming of films: the "Classic Black Film Series", the "CineOdyssey Film Festival" and the "Charlotte Area Association of Black Journalists". Throughout the series, eight featured movies will be shown. There will also be at least one "talk back" event each week, where a community leader, educator or media will lead a discussion
with the audience about one of the films shown.

Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00 P.M. Q&A With Rhiannon Giddens
Tyler-Tallman Hall, Sloan Music Center

The Davidson College Concert Series and C. Shaw and Nancy K. Smith Artist Series are proud to welcome acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens to the Duke Family Performance Hall. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. She most recently won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for "They're Calling Me Home," which she made with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Giddens is now a two-time winner and eight-time Grammy nominee for her work as a soloist and collaborator.

Tickets are free of charge and prioritized for current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. Below is the schedule and details of the release of tickets.

Current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff
-Tuesday, January 17th
-Must claim their ticket at the Union Box Office by showing their CatCard.
Davidson College Friends of the Arts and the American Musicological Society
-Thursday, January 19th
-You will receive specific instructions via email on how to claim your ticket.
Alumni and general public
-Wednesday, February 15th
-Visit davidson.edu/tickets (Etix charges an online convenience fee), call 704-894-2135, or visit the Union Box Office in-person on the third floor of the Knobloch Campus Center Monday-Friday between 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
This concert is part of the "Many Musics of America" series in conjunction with the American Musicological Society's Southeast Chapter and is possible through our sponsors the C. Shaw and Nancy K. Smith Artist Series, the Bacca Foundation Visiting Scholar and Artist Program, and the American Musicological Society.

Under the direction of Patrick Brown, the Davidson College Jazz Ensemble performs their first concert of the spring semester featuring Grammy award winning baritone saxophonist, Lauren Sevian. Co-director of the all-female collective “Lioness,“ Sevian can also be heard regularly with the Mingus Big Band and has performed with countless other groups such as Steely Dan, Veronica Swift, the Dizzy Gillespie all-star big band, Christian McBride’s Big Band, Robin Eubanks Big Band, and the legendary Count Basie Orchestra.
Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Breabach is a fascinating new generation Celtic band from Scotland. The great highlight of the quintet is the use of two bagpipers who double on flute, working beside fiddle and guitar. The resulting sound is highly rhythmic and energetic, and totally unique.

For tickets, please contact the Union Box Office at 704-894-2135. Free for Davidson students, but tickets are required.

In his fifth year as horn instructor, Andrew Fierova is presenting an evening of lush and beautiful horn music including Arnold Cooke's Nocturnes with soprano Jacquelyn Culpepper and pianist Cynthia Lawing. Featuring works from the past and present, this performance will be a horn lover’s delight!

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Davidson College Artist Associate in Piano William Fried performs Rzewski’s epic variations The People United Will Never Be Defeated! and miniatures by Fauré and Ligeti.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Dr. Marcus R. Pyle leads the DCSO in a performance of Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring organist Tomasz Robak. The concert also includes selections from two rarely performed operas--L'amant anonyme by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and the stirring and passionate "Intermezzo" from Franz Schmidt's opera, Notre Dame.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Trio Gaia, winners of the 2022 WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition and current Ensemble-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory, return to Davidson College for a rousing performance of classical works. The program will include Beethoven’s first Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Weinberg’s Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, and more!

The Department of Religious Studies Presents Carolyn Chen, Department of Ethnic Studies University of California Berkeley

Work may be the new religion in Silicon Valley, a concept that has implications for hard-working employees everywhere. The Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte presents “Work Pray Code: What Happens When Work Becomes Religion?” The lecture and Q&A will be presented by Carolyn Chen, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion as part of the 38th Annual Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture. Dr. Chen has conducted more than five years of in-depth interviews with Silicon Valley tech workers to examine how and why companies bring religious practices and ideas into work spaces and cultures. This study shows that work comes to satisfy needs for identity, belonging, purpose, and even transcendence that have traditionally been associated with organized religion. She warns that adopting and repurposing practices like meditation and mindfulness in the workplace weakens not only religious institutions but the social and civic institutions that were once the foundations of our communities.



The Loy H. Witherspoon lecture is the oldest endowed lecture series at UNC Charlotte, and the Department of Religious Studies is celebrating its 50th year at the University. Learn more.



Carolyn Chen received her doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2002. At UC Berkeley, Professor Chen is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, a member of the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Religious Diversity Cluster at the Othering and Belonging Institute, and an affiliate in the Department of Sociology. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, she was Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, where she served as Director of the Asian American Studies Program. Professor Chen’s research focuses on two areas: work and religion in contemporary America, and religion, race, and ethnicity, especially among Asian Americans. She is author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton 2008) and co-editor of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion among the Latino and Asian-American Second Generation (NYU 2012). Her new book is Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton 2022).

“Israel Has a Jewish Problem,” tells stories about the multiple ways that Jews struggle to be Jewish in Israel. Some of the stories are amusing, others frustrating, but all seem counter-intuitive. Dalsheim argues that struggles over Jewishness are part of the process of producing the ethnos for an ethno-national state. But the paradox is also about how nationalism limits popular sovereignty. Self-determination can become a form of self-elimination, narrowing the possible forms of Jewishness and reproducing Europe’s classic “Jewish Question” in new ways.

Joyce Dalsheim, is a cultural anthropologist and professor in the Department of Global Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned a doctorate at The New School for Social Research in New York. Dalsheim’s work interrogates some of the social and political categories through which everyday life is navigated. Her ethnographic research has focused primarily on what it means to be Jewish in Israel, the self-proclaimed Jewish State. Considering Jewishness in its broadest sense, she has explored the relationships between multiple Israeli Jewish communities in their struggles with each other and with their Palestinian neighbors. Employing critical and postcolonial theory, she has used the case of Israel to speak to broader issues of identity categories and conflict, temporality, historical narratives, religion and the secular, nationalism, citizenship, and sovereignty.

Join us for the Charlotte LUNGe Forward 5K Run, Walk & Celebration! It will be a day of celebration and remembrance, as well as a day to take action and provide hope to those impacted by lung cancer. Your support will make an impact in the fight against lung cancer!

Volunteer opportunities available. Email events@lungcancerinitiativenc.org for more details

Beacon tells a story. Or several stories if you like. Buildings naturally speak of contrasts, of opening and closing, revealing and concealing. They penetrate deep into the imagination and stimulate mystery, poetry, beauty and play. Buildings are of course an extension of those who built them, and a house only holds meaning in its reference to humans. Stories lie in the history, labor and structural intelligence of the built environment. And in the end, life really is about stories. Sculptor Morgan Kinne constructs an ambient narrative through installation, sculpture and mixed media works using the building as a mode of communication. Beacon is an invitation to enter the narrative. Or alter it. Or construct your own..

Morgan Kinne lives and works in Charleston, SC. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Winthrop University and her MFA in Contemporary Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. In 2020, she was chosen as the Griffith-Reyburn Lowcountry Artist of the Year by the Coastal Community Foundation and was a finalist for the 701 CCA Prize.

Dr. Halide Salam continues a 40-year focus on the intersections between the biological, the ecological, and the
spiritual in art, leading her into an increasingly deeper understanding for her own position within her practice.
This exhibition will include recent paintings from Salam’s new series of paintings (TransPlace, TransLight, and
TransMigration), within which she explores her own personal growth as a Muslim immigrant in modern
America. A central focus for Dr. Salam is a poem by the 13-century Sufi poet Rumi:

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
What should I fear?
When was I less by dying?

Dr. Halide Salam was born in West Bengal, India, but spent much of her early life in East Pakistan. She began
her studies in Chattogram, Bangladesh, but migrated to the United States in 1971 at the insistence of her
parents. She received her MA in Painting from New Mexico Highlands University and continued on to earn her
Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University. She later studied Sacred Geometry and Sacred Art Traditions
at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2020, Dr. Salam retired as a Professor of Art from Radford University
after 40 years of teaching. She lives and works in Blacksburg, VA.

The purpose of the Health/Career Fair is to increase health awareness through education and prevention as well as to helping those to find a path for their career through Graduate schools and Companies offering employment.
The Health/Career Fair will be open to students, faculty, and staff at our campus as well as the Charlotte Community. We anticipate an attendance of approximately 500 people

The Progress XChange proudly presents its Inaugural Charity Event featuring Tony Award Winner and entertainment icon Melba Moore Saturday 4.22.23