Live updates: Pro-Palestinian protest on Hearn Plaza evolves into encampment – Old Gold & Black wfuogb.com/24383/news/pro…

Talks will happen today with donors, Aramark, and President Susan Wente. Follow james + Old Gold & Black for the updates throughout the day.

We are so pleased that HERE LIES, ENTER GHOST, ORPHAN BACHELORS, and BEYOND INNOCENCE have been shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Stanford University Libraries! Congratulations to Olivia Clare Friedman, Isabella Hammad, Fae Myenne Ng, and Phoebe Zerwick 🎉

Pleased to be among this short list of fabulous writers.

Big announcement: I’m joining the national outlet Inside Climate News as their #NC reporter, starting June 10. I’ll be covering similar stories as I’ve done for 8 yrs NC Newsline | @ncnewsline.bsky.social including deep dives & investigations. ICN partners w local media so 1/2

Bonita Brown, a Wake Forest University alum, has been elected the first female chancellor of WSSU 🐏 More about her + why her appointment matters here: bizjournals.com/triad/news/202… via @triadbizjournal

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This is utterly chilling: Actual audio of men on death row banging on their doors as one of them is led to the execution chamber. That's from January. There's another execution there tonight, so this sound will be heard again. From Lee Hedgepeth: treadbylee.com/p/solidarity

This book is out today! I hope you’ll consider spending some time with it.

Excellent reporting by WFU grad and former Old Gold & Black editor in chief @connormcneely4 . Wake Forest faculty group: No confidence vote for university president 'premature' journalnow.com/news/local/edu… via Winston-Salem Journal

Check out this new piece by DWC adjunct faculty member, Barry Yeoman, published in the Sierra Club Magazine, about the environmental impact of hog farming in North Carolina. sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-2-…

For the past few months, The Assembly has worked with five student newspapers—The Daily Tar Heel, The Chronicle, Old Gold & Black, Niner Times, and The Seahawk—to explore how public and private colleges in NC have responded to the rapidly changing landscape surrounding DEI. 🧵

At Down from DC (downfromdc.substack.com) we'll be watching how the week unfolds.

Disaster readiness in NC; are we ready for the next big one? downfromdc.substack.com/p/helene-recov… Natalie Jennings

In my latest, I write about how a new provision in NC law might make it harder for defendants to appeal allegedly wrongful convictions: A Ticking Clock for Wrongful Conviction Claims theassemblync.com/politics/crimi…

More spot on reporting from lisasorg about another FEMA failure in NC> insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

In case you missed the last issue of Down from DC, with links to such NC news organizations as: Carolina Journal NC Newsline | @ncnewsline.bsky.social The Citizen Times WUNC downfromdc.substack.com/p/helene-recov…

More great reporting by WFU JOU student: