UNC-Chapel Hill protests and aftermath through the eyes of student journalists; and a protest song Southern Mix Tape - podcast episode cover

UNC-Chapel Hill protests and aftermath through the eyes of student journalists; and a protest song Southern Mix Tape

May 01, 202436 min
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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. 

Two Daily Tar Heel editors, Liv Reilly and Lauren Rhodes, join Due South co-host Leoneda Inge and WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer to talk about what happened on the UNC-CH campus on Tuesday.

Then, on an encore episode of Southern Mixtape, North Carolina State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway talks about protest songs spanning the last several decades.

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