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Education reporter Liz Schlemmer recounts her experiences covering the teacher shortage that has been hitting North Carolina schools over the last several years — and why it matters so much for students to have teachers physically with them in the classroom.
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Amid the royal spectacle of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, WUNC's Anisa Khalifa reflects on the Crown's brutal legacy.
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Rebecca Martinez explores the origins of her neighborhood in Durham, and wrestles with the idea of ethical homeownership in a gentrifying area built on white supremacy.
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Pauli Murray’s conviction for equality broke barriers and changed history. Charlie Shelton-Ormond reflects on her idea of patriotism, and what he can take from her legacy.
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Dave DeWitt reflects on the way history is written on the buildings, monuments and political systems that surround us — and why it's so important to question who wrote that history, what they left out or misrepresented, and who suffers from that erasure.
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Race and Southern culture reporter Leoneda Inge charts the organizing among Black women in the run up to Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2020, and the power of Black women's votes and voices.
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Reporter Leoneda Inge recounts her experience taking a private bus tour that she thought would be the Civil Rights trip of a lifetime. And it was — but her unexpected traveling companions transformed her journey in surprising ways.