WaPo: “Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, after weeks of controversy over why the universityinitially chose to hire the award-winning journalist as a professor without that level of job protection. The board’s 9-to-4 vote in favor of tenure came after a lengthy closed-session meeting on…

AR Times: “The Human Rights Campaign has filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on transgender women athletes and says it plans challenges in other states, including Arkansas. The 2021 Arkansas legislature passed two laws aimed at preventing transgender women from participating in athletics. One banned them from grade school through college. The other law allows lawsuits against…

The Progressive Pulse: “Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed a bill that would have ended the extra $300-a-week in federal money that unemployed people in the state receive. Republicans pushed the bill, saying the federal unemployment insurance supplement s contributing to a labor shortage because it keeps people from looking for work. Others argue that…

AR Times: “Labor news of note: Retirement of Arkansas AFL-CIO leader Alan Hughes and relevant of the group’s secretary-treasurer, Jessica Akers, to succeed him. She’s the organization’s first woman president. A Memphis native, she’s been with the Arkansas AFL-CIO since 2011.“

USA Today: “Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally in Florida Saturday comes at a fraught time for the former president: While the organization bearing his name in New York was indicted this week, he is also facing a potential rivalry with Florida governor and protege Ron DeSantis. Trump revisits Florida, a state he won twice, with some Republicans already talking about…

AP: “Touting the life-saving benefits of the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Friday vetoed three Republican-sponsored bills striking at vaccine mandates in Louisiana, among two dozen measures the Democratic governor announced he rejected as he completed his bill review. In his veto message, Edwards wrote that the anti-vaccine mandate bills “contribute to the…

WaPo: “It was a curious time for Sonny Perdue to close a real estate deal. In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America. Had anyone noticed, it would have prompted…

Sun Herald: “He’s been crisscrossing the state for months meeting with local leaders. He’s on track to have $1 million in his campaign coffer this year. He’s taking jabs at Gov. Tate Reeves at every opportunity. Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn sure shows all the signs of someone strongly considering a gubernatorial run in 2023….

Mediaite: “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he supports legislation to remove Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol, saying they’re “statues of Democrats.” “Let me state a simple fact,” McCarthy said. “All the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.” He even said “the bill should go further” and suggested, “Maybe it’s time…

North State Journal: “A news release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said the school’s trustees would meet Wednesday, June 30. It is expected they will vote on whether to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the controversial 1619 Project, which seeks to reframe American history. A decision by trustees…