The William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations

06/04/2026

More than 850,000 North Carolina students rely on the nutritious meals and snacks served during the school year through the School Breakfast, School Lunch and Afterschool Snack Programs. When school is out, North Carolina SUN Programs provide nutritious meals at no cost for youth ages 18 and under.

Read more: https://www.dpi.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2026/05/28/nc-sun-meals-programs-offer-free-food-fitness-farm-summer-fun-youth

05/11/2026

Approx half hour program — third in a three part series — on free speech… aired earlier in 2026.

Burt Wolf talks with technology experts about open communication as a cornerstone of democracy.

04/30/2026

04/16/2026

4/15/26 “I want to believe this is true power, that
kindness is the only weapon worth wielding, and I wield it,
land blow after blow to my enemies, without mercy.”

04/10/2026

Paraphrasing: “Getting along is a virtue we can learn…”

Agree?

https://theconversation.com/growing-up-during-sri-lankas-civil-war-taught-me-that-getting-along-with-people-across-divides-is-a-virtue-we-can-learn-273994

A scholar who studies the virtues that help people sustain relationships across faiths and cultures describes what being a child during the war taught him about practicing pluralism in action.

03/12/2026

Read more at the link below about Seminar Two of the 2025-27 Friday Fellowship class held in February 2026 - postponed by the statewide snowstorm yet the group adapted!

https://www.fridayfellowship.org/news/722103/Friday-Fellowship-Class-of-2025-2027-Completes-Seminar-Two.htm

03/05/2026

03/03/2026

From a NC-born poet…

I found a w**d that had a mirror in it and that mirror looked in at a mirror in me that had a w**d in it

02/25/2026

01/21/2026

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

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.