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Due South

UNC-Chapel Hill protests and aftermath through the eyes of student journalists

By Leoneda Inge,

Published May 1, 2024 at 12:15 PM EDT

Law enforcement officers clash with protestors demonstrating against the Israel-Hamas war on April 30, 2024, on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. At one point, protestors removed the U.S. flag and raised a Palestinian one.

As college students wrap up their classes for the semester, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have sprung up on campuses across the country, dominating headlines and the public discourse.

In Chapel Hill, 36 protesters at UNC were detained when they refused to leave a tent encampment on school grounds. Confrontations intensified Tuesday when demonstrators pulled down an American flag from a campus flagpole, replacing it with a Palestinian flag. We talk with reporters for the latest.

Guests

Liv Reilly, Managing Editor, The Daily Tar Heel

Lauren Rhodes, University Editor, The Daily Tar Heel

Liz Schlemmer, Education Reporter, WUNC

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at WUNC as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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