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UNC-Chapel Hill officials erected a 6-foot fence around the flag pole at Polk Place after protesters pulled down the American flag that normally flies there and ran up a Palestine flag.
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Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.
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The Justice Department is expected to propose a new, lower classification for marijuana that would lessen restrictions on the drug. But there's another review process to come.
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President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016.
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Two Daily Tar Heel editors join Due South co-host Leoneda Inge and WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer to talk about what happened on the UNC-CH campus on Tuesday.
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Dr. Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway joins co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii on this encore edition of Southern Mixtape.
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A state Senate committee has approved legislation to force sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
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United Methodist delegates have begun making historic policy changes on sexuality, voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ polices.
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WFAE's Layna Hong and WUNC's Eli Chen talk with co-host Jeff Tiberii about their story on health care interpreters for members of NC's Hmong community — who are often patients' adult children. They are also joined by Sendra Yang, who interprets for her father at his medical appointments.
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Wake County public school educators held a "walk-in" at seven schools and one school bus depot early Tuesday morning to call for pay raises in their local salary supplements funded by the county.
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Wakebrook closed last year after UNC Health pulled out. The facility will reopen to patients in May with renovations, more service providers, and a new crisis center.
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A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
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People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change yet often sidelined from policy conversations. Anita marks Earth Day by meeting three disability activists working to turn the tides. They share how their lives and bodies have been impacted by global warming — and how their wisdom could shift climate conversations.Meet the guests:- Daphne Frias, youth activist, shares how some policies aimed at addressing climate change disproportionately affect people with disabilities and about how her activism philosophy has been shaped by her cancer diagnosis- Germán Parodi, Co-Executive Director of The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, details his on-the-ground experience providing aid in the immediate aftermath of hurricanes and other climate crises- Julia Watts Belser, director of Georgetown University’s Disability and Climate Change: Public Archive Project, takes Anita into the public archive and talks about how the policy conversations about climate change could benefit from the wisdom in the disability community Read the transcript | Review the podcast on your preferred platformFollow Embodied on X and Instagram Leave a message for Embodied
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