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Emory University has appointed M. Daniele Fallin, an internationally regarded researcher and educator, as the new James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. Fallin will join Emory July 1, 2022.

Deborah Stanley planned to retire at the end of the year, but now she will, on a temporary basis, lead the State University of New York.

Work has yet to start, but Brandon is closer to building its next school after Monday’s city c...

N.C. Promised Police Reform a Year Ago. Did It Happen? The death of George Floyd inspired communities across North Carolina to commit themselves to reforming policing practices. A year later, some cities have made more progress towards those goals than others. May 26, 2021 •  (TNS) — The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee to Floyds neck for over nine minutes May 25, 2020, accelerated local police reforms in many ...

During last year’s uprisings against the ongoing anti-Black violence of police, “defund the police” emerged as the demand and rallying cry. Today, as we mark one year since George Floyd was murdered in the Cup Foods parking lot in Minneapolis by police, abolitionist organizers are still issuing that call, waging fights to defund police and invest in their communities — and experimenting with more holistic ways to keep communities safe. In the past year, defund police campaig...