Lauren Kent

Poverty affects state's rural counties at higher rate than urban counties

For the state of North Carolina, poverty lives in rolling hills.

Elementary school book stirs legislative controversy in Charlotte

At 32 pages, a small book called "Jacob’s New Dress" is causing a big controversy in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools.

Thousands more than expected turn out for Women's March on Raleigh

While an estimated 500,000 people flooded the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, another 17,000 filled the streets of North Carolina’s capital.

Decades of doctor-patient sexual assault raise questions of transparency

Seven out of 10 sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). A relative. A spouse. A date. 

N.C. Commission proposes 16-year-olds be tried as juveniles

Ninety-six percent of the crimes 16- and 17-year-olds commit in North Carolina are non-violent. Eighty percent of those crimes are misdemeanors. Yet 100 percent of these teenagers are tried as adults.

Wainstein's report, NCAA notices and accrediting response paint different pictures

In October 2014, the public was given what was considered the end of UNC’s yearslong academic-athletic scandal: independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein’s report.

Adding men's varsity programs tougher, but not impossible, thanks to Title IX

If a male club team wants to go varsity at UNC, Title IX does not help them.

Servers, bartenders work with $2.13 minimum wage

Senior Alex Vasquez cannot count the number of times she’s been stiffed for a tip — or perhaps worse, the number of times a customer will leave only 20 cents for a bill that’s $9.80.

Historically black colleges and universities in NC grapple with low graduation rates

Picture the first day of class.

LGBT defendants face bias in death penalty cases, but you wouldn't know it from the data available

The capital punishment trial of Calvin Burdine in Texas is famous.

Source: "Administration of Intercollegiate Athletics" by Erianne Weight and Robert Zullo.