- NC News Roundup: Violence and American politics. Response to Charlie Kirk killing, murder of Iryna Zarutska in CLT
By Jeff Tiberii, Erin Keever, September 12, 2025. Violence is at the forefront of American politics: Charlie Kirk killed at an on-campus rally in Utah. Iryna Zarutska, murdered on a train in Charlotte. North Carolina elected officials respond, and our panel offers perspective.
Guests:
Dawn Vaughan, Capitol Bureau Chief, The News & Observer
Bryan Anderson, freelance reporter, creator of the “Anderson Alerts” newsletter
Zachery Eanes, reporter, Axios Raleigh
Ely Portillo, executive editor, WFAE in Charlotte
- The creators of 'Ear Hustle,' the first podcast produced in prison. Plus, the history of school and residential segregation.
A look at the long and intertwined history of school and housing segregation. We talk to the author of the new book, Good Parents, Better Homes & Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal. And – we hear from the creators of the first podcast produced from prison – “Ear Hustle.”
- UNC civil rights law luminary Ted Shaw on the legacy of Thurgood Marshall. Plus, new documentary 'Becoming Thurgood.'
Theodore "Ted" M. Shaw, the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law, and Director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, at the UNC School of Law - who once led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme Court - talks with Leoneda Inge about the battles he fought then and the resonance they have now, and about his deep connection to civil rights legal legend Thurgood Marshall.
Then, Leoneda talks with Alexis Aggrey, the director and producer, and Travis Mitchell, an executive producer, of the new PBS documentary "Becoming Thurgood" – about the life and immense impact of the civil rights attorney turned U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.