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In today’s news: Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III defend affirmative action in Chapel Hill, on the cusp of a potentially major Supreme Court decision. Also: the town of Pittsboro holds its first-ever LGBTQ Pride event; Chapel Hill police search for a missing man; the Chapel Hill Town Council gets set to discuss housing and transportation; UNC names an alum as the next dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School; Gov. Roy Cooper heads to Charlotte to legalize sports gambling; UNC ranks as one of the nation’s top ten athletics programs; and two Tar Heel athletes earn individual honors.

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