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Two Lumbee scholars who have mined local archives in search of tribal history raise the profound question: Who has the rights to memories and artifacts of their people's past?
A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even now in the
#MeToo era.
Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year. This removed humans from the trophic cascade and whole food webs changed.
At the height of Reaganism, close to half of Americans believed a phrase popularized by Karl Marx actually derived from the US Constitution. It doesn't, but scholars have traced it to the Bible.
In 2016 Trump promised to 'shake the rust off America's foreign policy.' Four years later, it's clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
How would Joe Biden engage a world upended by Trump? A diplomacy expert explains what Biden's history says about his foreign policy priorities.
Even a highly popular and respected leader can lose an election, writes a historian – especially if they don't have a plan for the future. Churchill was one of them.
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has a long history of struggle, protest and resistance to white supremacy and its social effects.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic's racially disparate toll.
The United States has 53 million caregivers, according to the latest estimate. And COVID-19 makes what they do much harder.
Being a member of a certain age group shouldn't be a liability.
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance network. Hawks in Washington aren't impressed.
Aux États-Unis, le taux de mortalité dû au Covid-19 est plus élevé chez les Noirs que chez les Blancs, ce qui constitue une nouvelle illustration des inégalités existant dans le pays.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico, but some parts of this complex ecosystem fared better than others.
Blacks are dying at higher rates from COVID than whites, showing yet another example of gaps in outcomes between blacks and other groups. The cause is more sociological than biological.
Delivery workers and others who ensure most people don't have to go outside for essential goods are creating what economic theorists call an uncompensated 'positive externality.'
How accurate will the 2020 census be? A demographer explains which communities are hard to count, how the coronavirus could affect the process and what's at stake.
Germans are struggling like the rest of the world with the coronavirus. And while Germans have a strong safety net and medical system, one thing may fall victim to the virus: relations with the US.
The 2020 census will now count some groups differently than it has in the past. That could make a difference in the final count – affecting which states receive funding and congressional seats.
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Epidemiology, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Ph.D. Student in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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SPIRE Postdoctoral Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor; Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, Educational Policy and Organizational Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
