PINEHURST — Former federal Housing Secretary Ben Carson will speak at the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center on March 18. Carson will be the first speaker of 2022 in the James E. Holshouser, Jr. Lecture Series, which is hosted at the Bradshaw Center. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon and politician who served in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. He was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.