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☕ In Today’s Edition
1. Arrested While Praying for Health Care
2. UNC Students Push for Period Products
3. A Scoop on a Fired RPD Officer
4. The Crunkleton Opens in Raleigh
Good morning, readers.
Three Durham residents spent last Monday at the U.S. Capitol and ended up in zip ties.
Suvya Carroll, Lee Anderson, and Rev. Franklin Golden were among those arrested during a Moral Monday demonstration against proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Carroll, a disability rights advocate who uses a wheelchair, had her eyes closed and hands raised in prayer when officers approached.
House Republicans have proposed cutting nearly $1 trillion from these programs.
Those proposals aren’t distant policy debates for Carroll and her friend Sloan Meek, who also attended and spoke at the demonstration. Carroll lives independently in Durham on about $200 a month after bills, relying on SNAP for groceries. Meek, who lives with cerebral palsy, blindness, and epilepsy, depends on Medicaid-funded home support.
“Without Medicaid support in my home and my community, I will be forced into a nursing home to spend the rest of my life in a hospital bed until I die,” Meek told the crowd.
Read more below and have a good Friday.
—Lena
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UNC
Seeing Red
From The Assembly: UNC-Chapel Hill students, frustrated by a lack of period products on campus, push for the school to fund more dispensers.
ICYMI
Court Filing: Raleigh PD Officer Conducted Illegal Searches
Raleigh PD fired officer Kyle Epps in April. INDY‘s Jane Porter was first to report on a court filing this week that sheds light on why.
FOOD & DRINK
The Crunkleton Starts a Modern New Chapter in Raleigh
The legendary bar’s new Smoky Hollow location is a twist on the classic, Nation Hahn writes for the INDY.
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ICYMI: Protests against Trump (on the occasion of his birthday) are taking place across the country and the Triangle tomorrow. Read our interview with an organizer involved in Durham’s event.
STATE: A new dashboard lets North Carolina residents track air pollution in their communities, North Carolina Health News reports.
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