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How Iryna Zarutska’s Killing Sparked a National Outrage
It happened at a slow boil. The first reports of Iryna Zarutska’s tragic murder came from a police report in which the victim was not named, nor were many details provided. “On Friday, August 22, shortly before 10 p.m., officers responded to an Assault with a Deadly Weapon call for…
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Artist Kirsten Stolle Takes Chemical Corporations to Task
“My mom was dressed up as this giant strawberry with fish gills.” It was this childhood memory that sticks with Asheville-based visual artist Kirsten Stolle as a pivotal moment that would later influence her work. It came during the mid-1990s during a protest in Santa Cruz, California, against American multinational…
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Five Years Later, Pandemic Teens are Still Dealing with Trauma
It’s 2020. You’re 13 years old and in the seventh grade. Everyone is hooked on the nascent TikTok app and you’re dead set on learning the new “Renegade” dance. Charli D’Amelio is in, VSCO girls are out. You walk into your lunchroom one day to find that the main topic…
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How the Federal Education Funding Freeze Could Impact Local Schools
On July 10, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education (CMS BOE) Chair Stephanie Sneed and fellow rep Summer Nunn, who chairs the board’s Intergovernmental Relationships Committee, sent an open letter to the US Department of Education (DOE) and North Carolina lawmakers voicing their “deep concern” with the DOE’s decision to withhold…
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