“Protecting our students is our first job, both for faculty and admin. No matter where the students stand politically,' UNC professor Claudia Yaghoobi said at an emergency faculty meeting earlier today.

Brianna Atkinson has more on what was discussed 👇

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In an encore edition of Southern Mixtape on Due South, NC State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway talks with Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii about protest songs spanning the last several decades.

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Meeting at their worldwide General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., United Methodist delegates voted overwhelmingly to allow LGBTQ clergy and for Methodist ministers to officiate at same-sex weddings.

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President Biden announced that the White House would forgive more than $6.1 billion on student loan debt for 317,000 borrowers who attended The Art Institutes, a private art school system in the U.S. that shuttered last year.

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Chair Beth Moracco says she’s received “dozens” of messages from colleagues both supporting and opposing the actions on campus. She says the purpose of the meeting is for the committee to identify “shared values” and discuss goals for moving forward.

UNC faculty members are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the pro-Palestine protests on campus. The Faculty Executive Committee meeting started at 4 pm and should last about an hour.

.Colin Campbell & Liz Schlemmer report that state Senate leaders want to spend $248 million in the coming school year to ensure that private school vouchers are available to every family that applied, regardless of their income level.

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What do you want to know about space and space exploration? We'll be talking with an astrophysicist from NC Museum of Natural Sciences about some of humankind's biggest questions on WUNC's Due South -- are we alone in the universe? How did life begin on Earth? Reply with your questions!

.The Associated Press reports: President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina tomorrow 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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One day after the pro-Palestine encampment at UNC-Chapel Hill. Polk Place is relatively empty and quiet. The American flag remains half-mast and surrounded by several barriers:

.WFAE reports: Scenes of grief played out in front of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and in an east Charlotte neighborhood Tuesday, one day after four officers were killed and four others injured by a man wanted on gun charges.

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On Due South, Leoneda Inge & Liz Schlemmer talk with The Daily Tar Heel editors Lauren Rhodes liv reilly about the pro-Palestinian protests at UNC-Chapel Hill and what happened on campus yesterday.

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North Carolina Public Radio is hiring a News Social Media Producer based out of its Durham office. This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule. The deadline to apply is May 2.

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Acquisitions will fall within Bertie, Washington, Martin, Halifax and Northampton Counties. Under the plan, USFWS can add up to 50,000 acres to the Refuge. This land will be available for the public.

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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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The Biden administration is taking another step toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a move President Biden promised when he was running for office in 2019, and that could be popular with young voters this year.

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People can no longer access legal abortions in Florida beyond 6 weeks of pregnancy, except in rare circumstances. Abortion rights supporters say it will dramatically curb access to the procedure for thousands of residents in Florida and around the South.

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Some of North Carolina government's restrictions on dispensing abortion pills — such as requiring only doctors prescribe and provide the drug to the patient in person — are unlawful, a judge ruled on Tuesday.

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It was a crowded Tony Award season this year, with 36 eligible musicals and plays opening on Broadway stages.

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