Weekly Wrap Up
Immigration reform will likely reach the Senate floor next month, after a Senate panel approved legislation that will simultaneously create a 13-year path to citizenship and increase US/Mexico border security. The bill has been criticized for betraying the LGBT community after Senator Patrick Leahy withdrew an amendment that would allow US citizens in same-sex relationships … Read more
NAACP’s ‘Moral Monday’ provokes 57 arrests, but little interest from youth
COMMENTARY BY: GRACE TATTER For the fourth consecutive Monday, hundreds of North Carolinians gathered at the North Carolina General Assembly for “Moral Monday,” an initiative led by the NAACP to draw attention to legislation protesters say is regressive and at odds with state values. This Monday, the protest yielded the highest number of arrests yet … Read more
UNC history professor, Raging Grannies arrested at General Assembly
BY: GRACE TATTER UNC professor Jacquelyn Dowd Hall was arrested earlier this week while participating in a demonstration at the North Carolina General Assembly. The demonstration was organized by the NAACP against legislation threatening North Carolinians’ rights. Duke professors William Chafe and Robert Korstad, UNC School of Medicine professor Charles van der Horst, members of … Read more
Students Arrested at NC General Assembly Protest
By: GRACE TATTER AND CAREY HANLIN Photos by: CORINNE WHITE UPDATE: The five students arrested at the May Day protests have been released at this point. UNC-Chapel Hill students Carissa Morrison and Zaina Alsous were arrested Wednesday evening for disorderly conduct in Raleigh at the May Day protests. Three other students from UNC-Greensboro and UNC-Charlotte … Read more
