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WUNC A sign in the window of Max’s Italian Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills asks customers for understanding as the restaurant grapples with COVID rules and short staffing. Variations of the same plea are posted at businesses up and down the Outer Banks, sometimes right beside “Help Wanted” signs. With the pandemic easing its grip, the summer vacation season that unofficially begins this weekend is expected to set tourism records on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. That’s great for the local economy, which relies on visitors. But a major labor shortage means business owners won’t be a...

For decades, states and the federal government have funded Historically Black Colleges and Universities at rates much lower than historically white schools. Those funders – public and private – are just beginning to see the systemic racism built into how we pay for colleges, and small steps are being taken to right past wrongs. Host Dave DeWitt speaks with Liz Schlemmer, WUNC's education reporter, about that history, and how one school – North Carolina A&T State University – is setting fundraising records, and how administrators and advocates hope to build on recent successes.

Host Dave DeWitt talks to Touro College’s Dean of Health Sciences Louis Primavera about the identity issues that come with retirement. Legendary UNC basketball coach Roy Williams has joined the ranks of tens of millions of retired Americans. But Williams said he was “scared to death” of losing his identity as a coach. Tested host Dave DeWitt interviews Touro College’s Dean of Health Sciences Louis Primavera about his book, “The Retirement Maze: What You Should Know Before and After You Retire.” Tags

Hosts Dave DeWitt and Leoneda Inge report on the effort to rename a building on the campus of a North Carolina university, and why faculty leading that charge say the change will help undo a harmful history in the South.

COVID cases are dropping and vaccine doses are becoming more plentiful. Scientists are even working on a pill that could prevent future coronavirus