Host Frank Stasio looks back on his 2019 interview with Cecilia Polanco.
It became clear to Polanco that after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she would have to attend what she calls The School of Pupusas under the instruction of her aunt and mother. With the guidance and support of her family, Polanco has leveraged her grandmother’s recipe into a force for change in Durham. The food truck So Good Pupusas funds a nonprofit that Polanco founded to provide college scholarships to undocumented students and DACA recipients.
Polanco hustles to make ends meet, yet continues improving her food truck’s model for economic justice and environmental sustainability. Those values permeate all of her work. In addition to being the CEO of So Good Pupusas, she is the executive director of SEEDS, a nonprofit urban garden and kitchen classroom in Durham, and serves on various boards, including Durham’s Racial Equity Task Force and LatinxEd.
By Cullen Browder, WRAl anchor/reporter
Raleigh, N.C. The pandemic created extra lessons for college students and their institutions – not all of them positive.
Megan Maiorano, a civil engineering major at N.C. State, said she s trying to make the most of a disappointing senior year. Everyone I know is just trying to ride it out and get to the finish line, Maiorano said.
A national report shows enrollment at four-year colleges was off by about 2 percent this fall from a year ago.
Spokespeople at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State said enrollment at both campuses actually increased from fall 2019. Still, both schools are trimming budgets after losing large chunks of their campus housing and dining revenue.
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The College Fix accusations of “scientific racism” made against them are “patently false.”
“Falsely playing the race card as has been done here to try to ban a book simply because one doesn’t agree with the contents is unhelpful to the fight against genuine racism,” said San Jose State Anthropology Professor Elizabeth Weiss in an emailed statement.
Weiss and her co-author, attorney James Springer, take a “critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds,” according to the book’s promotional materials.
Some academics have called for the book to have its open access revoked to prevent “further harm to Indigenous communities and scholars,” according to a protest letter.
The most intriguing books on religion we read this year
Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. Photo by Jason Leung/Unsplash/Creative Commons
December 23, 2020
(RNS) Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months, how did the thinkers, researchers, preachers and their publishers of the books we clung to know to furnish us with such timely analyses? As several of the authors of the most interesting books have noted, the answer is all too grim: In many cases, we only reaped in 2020 what we had long sown.