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The Carolina Panthers held their first preseason home game against the Baltimore Ravens, UNC Chapel Hill lands a major in-state recruit in football, and week 1 of high school football kicked off. We'll recap the highs and lows of the biggest Charlotte-area sports stories.
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A tradition at a North Carolina university has come under scrutiny after pictures the school posted on social media showed hundreds of students gathered at a campus landmark waiting to get a drink of water in the midst of a COVID-19 surge.
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The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to her faculty, says she's stepping down. Susan King issued a statement to the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday morning, the University of North Carolina announced the first group licensing program for current student-athletes.
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UNC Chapel Hill has received a $12.5 million gift to start a clinical treatment program for veterans and first responders with traumatic brain injuries. It's being funded through money from a foundation started by actor Gary Sinise, a longtime advocate for military service members and veterans perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Dan in "Forest Gump."
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At historically black colleges and universities, Hannah-Jones' decision is being celebrated as an important step toward redefining which schools should be considered among the most prestigious.
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The fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones and tenure at UNC Chapel Hill has been a major controversy in North Carolina over the past few weeks — one that drew national attention. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, wonders what it would feel like if you stripped the problem down to its essence.
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Some of the week's biggest stories: Mecklenburg County and CMS move on from their dispute over $56 million, Nikole Hannah-Jones moves on from UNC, and Mecklenburg's health director plans to move on to retirement after leading COVID-19 efforts.
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A coalition of groups representing Black students, faculty, and staff met Wednesday to outline their priorities to create a safer, more equitable campus.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones' decision to join the faculty at Howard University rather than UNC Chapel Hill follows an extended and public fight over whether UNC would give her tenure. Joe Killian of the left-leaning NC Policy Watch, who has interviewed both Hannah-Jones and Walter Hussman Jr., the major donor who emailed concerns about Hannah Jones to university leaders, joins WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn.