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INDY Week •

Local Podcast 'The Red Justice Project' Illuminates the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

This story was the cover story of INDY Week and was also published in The Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer, The State, The Island Packet, The Herald-Sun, Rock Hill Herald, and The Sun News.
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UNC Media Hub •

Trekking through time: Documenting ancient Cherokee trails in Western North Carolina

Brows furrowed and field notebooks in hand, the two men can be found deep in the mountains several days a week. They walk carefully, pausing every so often to deliberate, take notes or point out landmarks. They are searching for trails that intertwine the eighteenth-century history of the Cherokee people and a prominent American naturalist. The mission: to preserve this history by documenting the ancient Cherokee paths that were used by explorer William Bartram on his journey throughout the Ame
UNC Media Hub •

Fighting the Defense Industry: Asheville Group Organizes Local and National Effort

The winding French Broad River is home to a number of rare and endangered species. Along the banks of the river outside Asheville, the oaks, river birches, sycamores, and willows provide crucial shelter for animals and the river alike. But 100 acres of the area beside the river have been cut down to make way for a plant that will be producing aircraft parts for Pratt and Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the world.
UNC Media Hub •

Waging Peace: Students from North Carolina and Iraq Create a Virtual Exchange

A couple of years ago, University of Mosul student Nora Al Jadoue wanted to leave Iraq. At the same time, UNC sophomore Eden Yousif wasn’t sure she would ever get to see Iraq. But thanks to an innovative virtual exchange program between the University of Mosul, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro, students are developing new understandings of Iraq and the U.S. Despite being over 6,000 miles apart, students in Iraq and North Carolina have found they have much to share with one another and plenty

‘An honor to be there’: A day in the life of a UNC doula

A pregnant woman arrived by helicopter alone at UNC Hospitals in February 2020. She was in labor, 15 weeks earlier than expected. Medics rushed the woman inside, where Hannaneh Mirmozaffari was in the middle of her doula shift. Not realizing the woman was only 24 weeks pregnant, Mirmozaffari reassured her everything was going to be okay. At just 21 years old, Mirmozaffari is used to being at the bedsides of strangers on the most intense days of their lives; as a volunteer doula, she provides p
The Daily Tar Heel •

VITAE hiring program on pause due to University budgetary constraints

The Valuing Inclusion To Attain Excellence hiring program, which seeks to attract new faculty members from underrepresented groups to UNC, has been paused until further notice, Provost Bob Blouin announced on Jan. 25. Blouin said the program, formerly known as the Target of Opportunity program, is on hold due to fiscal challenges that UNC is facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will eventually be reinstated, he said.
The Daily Tar Heel •

Faculty of color consider leaving, cite lack of opportunities and toxic environment

Other UNC faculty said they have considered leaving the University for peer institutions due to a lack of leadership opportunities and a toxic environment for faculty who are people of color. “The work that we do is not valued as much as work that other faculty do,” Ho said. There is a long list of faculty who are people of color who have left the University in the last few years, Miguel La Serna, associate professor in the Department of History, said. “Many of them — not all — but many who I
The Daily Tar Heel •

Newly-elected UNC System president attempted to defund LGBTQ+ group as a UNC undergrad

Hans and two other men interviewed "said they were personally opposed to homosexuality, but that that was not why they were trying to stop CGLA funding," the DTH reported. In the same DTH article, Hans said his personal beliefs were irrelevant to his stance on defunding the group. “This is an example of how they dominate campus politics,” Hans said in 1988. The DTH previously reported on rumors that N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore was in the running for the position of UNC System president. Moor
EducationNC •

Two refugees’ perspectives on school in North Carolina

Haleema Begum is originally from the Pakistani border city of Quetta, but she’s lived in four different countries since she was born. “I’m Shi’a and I’m Hazara,” Begum said. “That was the reason that we left our country — because we were not safe.” Shi’a Hazaras are a group that face “deadly extremist violence” and “societal discrimination, hate crimes, and periodic bombings” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the Peoples under Threat 2020 report from the Minority Rights Group International and Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights.
EducationNC •

‘Resilient schools create our resilient communities’ — How one ESL teacher is responding to trauma among refugee students

Our world, in its long history of conflict and persecution, has never had more refugees than it has now. By the end of 2018, nearly 30 million refugees had been forced from their homes according to the United Nations. And that’s just the number who have actually been certified as refugees. “The way that people achieve refugee status is by being able to demonstrate profound adversity and trauma,” said Catriona Moore, an ESL teacher at Forest View Elementary School in Durham. “Refugee is a legal
EducationNC •

'COVID-19 is a really great example of these gaps in the system' — How coronavirus impacts refugee education

The coronavirus pandemic is presenting challenges for every student in North Carolina. For refugee students, these challenges can be especially intense. “Once the COVID crisis occurred and the students were out of school, these students kind of disappeared from the school radar,” said Stacy Parker-Fisher, a tutor at the Refugee Support Center in Carrboro. The Refugee Support Center provides assistance to refugees in Orange County and surrounding areas by offering resources and teaching skills that promote self-sufficiency.
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