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Talking with Karen Pittelman, Ellen Angelico and Kym Register about advocating for queer and nonwhite people in and around country music

Saints Fantasy: Start Winston or Hill at QB1 in 2021? New Orleans Saints quarterbacks Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill enter an offseason battle to claim to reins as the starting quarterback. But should either be considered a fantasy football QB1 in 2021? Author: May 13, 2021 The New Orleans Saints will witness a starting quarterback competition for the first time in fifteen years. Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill are ready to battle for the rights to Drew Brees' vacant throne.  However, will either hold the same fantasy value in the Saints offense as Brees did in his prime? A month ago I wrote ...

6pm EST: Thursday, April 8 1pm EST: Howdy Partner: Collaborating and Connecting Beyond Campus – A panel discussion on outreach moderated by Dr. Malinda Lowery Friday, April 9 12pm EST: Match/Make – A Showcase of Artist/Scholar Collaborations featuring artists Kamara Thomas, Jessica Stark and Iris Gottlieb and grad student scholars Deanna Corrin (Geography), Jacob Griffin (Anthropology) and Elias Gross (Music) 4pm EST: Humanities Futures – An undergraduate student led relfection on the Humanities Futures program and their work with the Black Communities Conference Our Theme: “What Now?...

A Sunday service at NorthStar in Durham. “There’s a New World Coming” is a song the great Georgia-born singer Bernice Johnson Reagon recorded in 1975. In the early 1960s, Reagon was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Singers, and in 1973 she started Sweet Honey in the Rock, a celebrated Black female a cappella group. But in “There’s a New World Coming,” which appears on her album Give Your Hands to Struggle, Reagon sings alone: “There’s a new day coming! / Everything’s gon’ be turning over / Everything’s gon’ be turning over...

Rissi Palmer is a passionate voice for country artists of color and those who have been marginalized in mainstream country music. When The Boot asked her to curate a list of songs that are essential to know going into the new year, she delivered a strong and exceptionally diverse list of artists and songs, some of which might otherwise escape fans' attention. Palmer debuted with "Country Girl" in 2007, making her the first Black female country singer to chart a single on Billboard 's Hot Country Songs chart in 20 years. She released her most personal material to date on 2019's Revival