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Captain Rahsheem Holland’s conduct toward protesters on April 30 — and in protests at a 2021 Board of Trustees meeting — raises concerns about police accountability at UNC.

The day after UNC Students for Justice in Palestine held its “day of resistance” rally on the steps of Wilson Library, Marty Kotis, a member of the UNC Board of Trustees, sent an email to University leaders expressing concern about the student organization. In his email to Provost Chris Clemens and Senior Advisor to the Office of the Chancellor Chris McClure, Kotis compared SJP’s Instagram post about the rally, which featured the silhouette of a paraglider, to a “noose celebrating a lynching.”

Pastor Carolyn Riggins, a longtime resident, wants the city and community to make the neighborhood better. She’s willing to do her part.

A week after Rob Koll was named the new head coach of the North Carolina wrestling team in August, the UNC alumnus and acclaimed coach was a guest on a podcast where the host asked him an open-ended question about what made Chapel Hill “so great.” “Well, first of all, it’s 60 percent women for God’s sakes,” Koll said on The Bader Show, a show on FloWrestling.

UNC housekeepers started organizing for $20 per hour wages and free parking in September of 2022, and they say not much has changed since they started. Neither demand has been met fully by the University and housekeeper leaders say the last change they saw was a 90-cent raise in December, bringing their base wage rate to $16.81. In May, they formed their own co-chapter of The Workers Union specifically for campus workers, but even within the group, many members say they aren’t sure how to keep momentum going to create change.

At a press conference about five hours after the shooting on the University’s campus, UNC Police Chief Brian James confirmed his forces had initially detained the wrong person. “That was based on, just a description we were given of the suspect and that person being in close proximity of the incident,” James said. Wrongly detained because he “fit the description” – we’ve heard that before.

Each year, Arminda Da Conceicao’s mango trees drop more fruit outside her Pinellas Park home than she can eat or give to her family. Heather Brooke was scouring Facebook when she saw a post from Da Conceicao’s daughter offering her mother’s mangoes for free. So in the record heat of a Friday afternoon in late July, Brooke arrived with her husband, two teenage kids and a volunteer for the harvest.

RUSKIN — Dana-Lise Acevedo says she’s taken her two young kids on so many home tours they’ve started to find it fun: They’ve made games out of running through hallways and fighting over empty rooms. At the end of May, she brought them along to check out a four-bedroom house in Ruskin knowing this one was different. This home one would soon be theirs.

Mona Judge, a 59-year-old hairdresser, moved around her Monday and Friday night appointments to learn how to grow her own herbs for teas. Reba Parsons, a 42-year-old computer programmer, could only make a few of the classes but brought ramen noodle salad to the celebratory potluck anyway because she wanted to support her cousin, who showed her the class.

Hillsborough County civic leaders gathered at the West Tampa Community Resource Center to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday on Monday with commemorations, but also a big announcement. Not only did they observe the 158th anniversary of what many consider the true end of slavery, but they also welcomed news that Hillsborough has taken a step closer to properly recognizing its own Black history.

The UNC Housekeeping Employee Statement of Demands includes 21 handwritten notes.

In 2018, Ari Sen was a UNC student photographing protests surrounding the Silent Sam statue. He said he was standing about three feet from the statue when it was toppled by community activists that August.

“Today, it makes me feel good that you walked up and let me know that you are hearing us — because we tired,” housekeeper Robin Lee said to the UNC Board of Trustees on Wednesday. “We is tired. We is tired. We is tired. We’re overworked and we is tired.”

December 26, 2022 After months of advocacy, University housekeepers have been granted a pay raise of 90 cents to $16.81 per hour, according to The Workers Union at UNC.

Brazil’s voters will likely choose the Left on Oct. 30, but the right wing will remain mobilized.

At a Wednesday rally in front of South Building, UNC housekeepers announced they have been offered a contract from the University.