Friday Fellows believe we must build and maintain relationships across our differences to move forward together.
North Carolina, USA
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Nominations & applications now open for North Carolina residents to apply ✍️ for the next class of William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations.
Apply or nominate through Dec 10, 2026.
Full details on this free program at this link:
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Five Friday Fellows elected in the November 2026 elections. #ncpol
Read more at the link below:
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One review of a text by an NC author the current Friday Fellowship class is reading for seminar four – The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects The Way We Think, Live and Die #nced policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
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Excerpted:
“In Gastonia, though, it seems people want to forget. Filmmakers hoping to make a documentary about the strike in the 1980s have trouble finding willing interviewees. In 1986, a proposal to create a historical marker is still controversial.”
ourstate.com/loray-mill-stri…
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Would you like to apply or nominate someone to the Friday Fellowship?
Online Info Sessions will be held
Tues, Sept 29 @ 4pm &
Wed, Oct 14 @ 12:30pm
Register: fridayfellowship.org/event/S…
fridayfellowship.org/event/O…
Formal applications & nominations open online on Oct 1, 2026 #nced
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Excerpted:
“And when I talk about humility, I mean this. There is nothing. There is us, only. You know, it’s me and you. That’s it. And this should be enough. But in order to believe to that this is enough, we have to believe in each other.”
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Read 👀 more about Seminar Three of the Friday Fellowship Class of 2025-27 held in Carteret County, NC. More links 💻and pics 📸 are in the article now available on our website. #nced
Direct link: fridayfellowship.org/news/73…
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From an author whose text was shared for the recent Seminar Three of the 2025-27 Friday Fellowship class….
A beautiful reflection on what math is about, and how human understanding is formed, even the an age of AI. I plan to assign it as reading in my advanced analysis course this Fall. From my colleague Jon Jacobsen in the Mathematical Intelligencer:
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Wildacres Retreat annual applications for artist-in-residence & environmental-artist-in-residence programs are open Aug 1, 2026 - Oct 15, 2026 for residencies during the 2027 calendar year.
For more information, please visit Wildacres dot org & click on the Programs menu.
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Excerpted from a recent episode of ON POINT
“Politics, misinformation, deepfakes, AI, even commerce in general all seek to exploit our blind spots, to make us believe things that are not true or behave in ways that we might not want to.”
Full episode here:
wbur.org/onpoint/2026/07/14/…
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How North Carolina is preserving its America 250 story with @DepSecWaters aka @DarinWaters — one of his many titles/jobs is State Historian of NC — spectruminfocus.com/section/…
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Understanding how you and the people you work with see themselves in time is important because reams of research suggest that being optimistic about the future contributes to productivity. @LinRod sb.stratbz.to/43nKCky via @stratandbiz
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Read more at the link below about Seminar Two of the 2025-27 Friday Fellowship class held in February 2026 by the Albemarle Sound - postponed by the statewide snowstorm yet the group adapted!
fridayfellowship.org/news/72… #nced
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Friday Fellows 📣 First FREE Virtual All Fellows Convenings of 2026 are Tues, Feb 10 at 6:30pm & Thurs May 14 at 3:30pm. Register to receive an e-retreat packet including 📖 “Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer” by @chriscooperwcu -
fridayfellowship.org/event/V…
Las libertades, al igual question los privilegios prevalecen o se ven en peligro juntas. No puedes dañar o esforzarte por lograr una sin dañar o favorecer todas.
-José Martí
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Evil societies always kill their consciences. We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. -James L. Farmer, Jr.
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“Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.” — Lucretia Mott
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Updates from the final WLI Board of Advisors meeting of 2025! 📣📣 Congrats to new 2026 board officers 👏👏👏 welcome new board members 🙌and deep appreciation to retiring members 🌟⭐️ More info on 2026 programming as well… Read more here: fridayfellowship.org/news/71…
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First Seminar of the William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations Class of 2025-2027 Held in October 2025 at Wildacres Retreat in McDowell County, NC — Read 📖, see 👀more pics📸, and follow more links 📲 here:
fridayfellowship.org/news/71…
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