The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history. In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that day in a remarkable act of valor that left him permanently disabled. Awarded the Medal of Honor after a yearslong campaign, Benavidez became a highly sought-after public speaker, a living symbol of military heroism, and one of the country’s most prominent Latinos. Now, historian William Sturkey tells Benavidez’s life story in full for the first time. Growing up in Jim Crow–era Texas, Benavidez was scorned as “Mexican” despite his family’s deep roots in the state. He escaped poverty by enlisting in a desegregating military and was first deployed amid the global upheavals of the 1950s. Even after receiving the Medal of Honor, Benavidez was forced to fight for disability benefits amid Reagan-era cutbacks. An unwavering patriot alternately celebrated and snubbed by the country he loved, Benavidez embodied many of the contradictions inherent in twentieth-century Latino life. The Ballad of Roy Benavidez places that experience firmly at the heart of the American story.  William Sturkey is an associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hattiesburg, a finalist for the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award and winner of the 2020 Zócalo Book Prize, and the co-editor of To Write in the Light of Freedom. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Daniel Wallace is the author of six novels, including Big Fish, which was adapted and released as a movie and a Broadway musical. His novels have been […]

Enjoy a cup of coffee at Havoc Brewing while snuggling kitties looking for a forever home! There will be raffle prizes and a coffee special.

Fairy Hair June 15 9-2 please email Michelle @[email protected] to sign up

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A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field. Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. In this brilliant and paradigm-shifting book, legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America. When cities go bankrupt, for example, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiating table; the system is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than of the parking tickets disproportionately distributed in African American neighborhoods. Across a broad range of crucial issues, Unjust Debts reveals the hidden mechanisms by which bankruptcy impacts everything from sexual harassment to health care, police violence to employment discrimination, and the opioid crisis to gun violence. In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s groundbreaking Evicted, Unjust Debts is a riveting and original work of accessible scholarship with huge implications for ordinary people and will set the terms of debate for this vital subject. Melissa B. Jacoby is the Graham Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A frequent commentator on bankruptcy and debt in national media outlets, she has published over fifty articles, book chapters, and op-eds. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York. Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal (The New Press) is her first book. Find her at mbjacoby.org. Gene R. Nichol is a law professor, […]

Join us as we celebrate successes with Chatham Magazine’s 2024 Women of Achievement during our Evening with Distinguished Women event. This is an event exclusively for our female Chamber members and female members of the community. The event will be held at Starrlight Mead on Tuesday, June 18 at 5:30 PM. The event will include a panel discussion, speeches from the Women of Achievement recipients, networking, appetizers, and more. We’d like to thank Chatham Magazine, Edward Jones - Financial Advisor: Sharon Dickens, and Starrlight Mead for sponsoring the event. Tickets are $20 for Chamber Members and $25 for Future Chamber Members. Registration required.

The Quiltmaker Cafe pay-what-you-can food truck will be at the Red Moose Brewing parking lot on Tuesday, May 14, from noon - 2 pm.

Exciting Opportunity for Small Business Owners and Aspiring Entrepreneurs! 🚀 📚Are you a business owner or dreaming of starting your own venture? Join us for 5 power-packed sessions with the CCCC Small Business Center! Free and open to the public! 🥳 🗓️ Dates: May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26 ⏱️Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 📍Location: Red Moose Brewing Company� 🔥 Unlock the secrets to business success! 🧳 Learn essential tools for your entrepreneurial journey. 🌐 Connect with experts and fellow entrepreneurs. 🤝 Network and build valuable relationships. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your business to new heights. To register or for more information, call (919) 545-8015 or scan the QR code in the flyer.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 6/19 – Lauren Meehan 6/26 – Dave Quick Jazz 7/3 – Steve Hobbs Trio

Come and paint with local artist Charlie Frye at The Mod. 7:00 PM next Wednesday, 6/19/2024 Sign up at Frye Studios or at the Mod with Jamie Ellen. You can also message Susan Frye to sign up. 828.292.0800

A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse—essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust. Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat—The New Tourist lifts the veil on an industry that accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and generates nearly ten percent of global GDP. How did a once-niche activity become the world’s most important means of contact across cultures? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective, or driving places we love further into the ground? Filled with revelations about an industry that shapes how we view the world, The New Tourist spotlights painful truths but also delivers a message of hope: that the right kind of tourism—and the right kind of tourist—can be a powerful force for good. Paige McClanahan is an American journalist based in France. A regular contributor to The New York Times, she has reported from more than a dozen countries, writing for publications like The Guardian, the BBC, and The Washington Post, among many others. Her reporting has covered multilateral trade negotiations, humanitarian crises, economic development, and, for the past five years, the tourism industry. Her travel journalism has been recognized by The Society of American Travel Writers and the North American Travel Journalists Association. A graduate of Williams College and Duke University, she has lived in five countries since she left the United States in 2008.

Join us at Pittsboro Gallery of Arts June 21st 5 to 8 pm when member Trudy Thomson references the artwork on display -- as she identifies Visual Decoding and addresses how different visual techniques influence viewing.

Grab your popcorn and get ready for Friday Movie Night at MOSAIC at Chatham Park! 🎥🍿 Here's what's on the big screen: 🏎️ June 21: It's Movie Night + Car show! Car show starts at 7:30 pm, followed by 'Cars' at 8:30 pm. Don't forget your lawn chair or blanket and arrive early to secure a spot. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3UZhKhR!

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Join West End Kitchen for tea on the last Monday of every month, from 3-5 pm. Reservations required.

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown. Many escaped from lives circumscribed by racism, sexism, poverty, and discrimination as they took on great risk in unfamiliar territory to exercise personal freedom. Born into slavery, James Beckwourth found freedom as a mountain man and became one of the great entrepreneurs of Gold Rush California. Matthew Henson, the son of African American sharecroppers, left rural Maryland behind to seek the North Pole. Women like Harriet Chalmers Adams ascended Peruvian mountains to gain geographic knowledge while Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride shattered glass ceilings by pushing the limits of flight. In The Explorers, readers will travel across the vast Great Plains and into the heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains; they will traverse the frozen Arctic Ocean and descend into the jungles of South America; they will journey by canoe and horseback, train and dogsled, airplane and space shuttle. Readers will experience the exhilarating history of American exploration alongside the men and women who shared a deep drive to discover the unknown. Across two centuries and many thousands of miles of terrain, Amanda Bellows offers an ode to our country’s most intrepid adventurers—and […]

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