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WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
After 70 years, 89-year-old James Brown will finally get the recognition he deserves after fighting in the Korean War. On Friday, the Veterans Legal Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law announced that veteran James Brown will be respectfully honored with the Purple Heart medal. After a year of searching for files and going over his case, Brown’s dishonorable discharge was overturned.
November 11, 2022
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
WFU’s ‘Turkeypalooza’ prepares 600 Thanksgiving meals for those in need
Wake Forest University students and staff are preparing for an annual holiday tradition that gives back to the community, Turkeypalooza. It starts Sunday through Saturday, November 19.
November 11, 2022
Mirage News
Turkeypalooza to prepare hundreds of meals for those in need
Wake Forest University students and staff are getting ready for an annual holiday tradition that gives back to the community. Turkeypalooza will take place from Sunday, Nov. 13 – Saturday, Nov. 19. This student-led event prepares 600 Thanksgiving meals for residents in Forsyth County facing food insecurity. The event coincides with National Hunger and Homelessness Week.
November 10, 2022
Yahoo News
Nick Schifrin joins The Local Vibe ahead of WFU’s Face to Face Speaker Forum
Nick Schifrin, the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, D.C. joins The Local Vibe ahead of the the upcoming Face to Face Speaker Forum on Nov. 15.
November 9, 2022
WXLV-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
The Innovation Quarter: Where it’s been and where it’s going
In the early 2000s, the Innovation Quarter began as a concept to relocate the research wing of Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Developers included the footprint of Winston-Salem’s tobacco industry into the makeup of the project — after all several of these buildings are old Reynolds Tobacco Company warehouses.
November 9, 2022
Psychology Today
How can you move past adversity and understand what comes next? The answer to that question is not as obvious or simplistic as you may think. We must all grapple with this question at some point in our lives, given that we cannot be completely free of adversity, failure, and suffering. Thinkers in religion and philosophy have also pondered this question for thousands of years.
November 8, 2022
RPP (Peru)
¿Cuánto ha deforestado la minería ilegal en los últimos años?
La minería ilegal viene afectando al país de forma continua en diversos aspectos: contamina los ríos, afecta la salud de las comunidades, no paga impuestos y deforesta los bosques que han tardado miles de años en convertirse en los pulmones del mundo. El impacto negativo que ha generado en el medio ambiente es innegable y se va agravando a medida que los grupos ilegales crecen.
November 8, 2022
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Election integrity groups, poll watchers, and the shrinking of American democracy
From Reconstruction to the civil rights movement and beyond, efforts to expand the franchise — the right to vote — have been followed by electoral strategies designed to limit it. Humanities professor Corey Walker spoke with WFDD’s David Ford about the various forms that voter suppression efforts have taken over generations.
November 7, 2022
The Island (Sri Lanka)
Lankan crisis embedded into political system with leaders playing Sinhalese Buddhist card
A recent Democracy Forum seminar highlighted the dire political and economic problems overwhelming Sri Lanka, and what other South Asian nations might learn from its experience. Politics professor Neil DeVotta discussed the proximate causes of the crisis facing Sri Lanka, juxtaposing that with mal-governance over the decades and linking the island’s current problems with its ethnocentric trajectory.
November 6, 2022
Yahoo Entertainment
On election night, some will celebrate, others cringe
Area political scientists say that the motivation of partisan voters, choices made by unaffiliated voters and campaign topics that end up most important in the minds of people, will tilt the balance on Tuesday, Election Day. One factor that will determine outcomes centers on the relative enthusiasm level of voters backing Republican or Democratic candidates, politics professor John Dinan said.
November 5, 2022
The Black Chronicle
In Trump case, Texas creates a headache for Georgia prosecutors
The body overseeing the Fulton County investigation is known under Georgia law as a special purpose grand jury. Law professor Ronald Wright, who studies the work of criminal prosecutors, said that the Texas court’s decision, based on its interpretation of the special grand jury’s purpose, appeared unusual.
November 5, 2022
The Wall Street Journal
‘A Commonwealth of Hope’ Review: The uplifting St. Augustine
In “A Commonwealth of Hope” professor of humanities and Michael Lamb, professor of humanities and executive Director of Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character, introduces his readers to another Augustine. This Augustine was not a pessimist but a champion of hope. He encouraged his hearers to hope for the well-being of the city.
November 4, 2022