Videos
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Video: Lumbee recognition in North Carolina
NC’s Lumbee Tribe is headed for federal recognition after decades of waiting. Cardinal & Pine Senior Editor Billy Ball talked about it recently on PBS NC’s “State Lines.”
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Billy Ball Explains NC: NC GOP outraged over gay Santa book
NC Republicans’ fury about a gay Santa book is one big performance, but it hurts real children.
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Video: Man destroys nativity scene protesting ICE raids in NC
CNN happened to cover a man wrecking a nativity scene in Charlotte protesting ICE raids in NC.
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Video: NC pastor says ICE took a community member and denied visitation
A NC pastor talks to Cardinal & Pine about ICE’s arrest of a Raleigh man who later suffered a medical emergency. ICE reportedly denied his family visitation afterward.
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Billy Ball Explains NC: Why do people immigrate illegally?
Why don’t undocumented people just become … documented? Why do people immigrate illegally? In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on America’s broken immigration system, and ICE and Border Patrol’s brutal policing of it.
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Video: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis questions Pete Hegseth’s leadership
NC’s retiring Sen. Thom Tillis seems to be souring on the leadership of Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Video: NC churches rally to protect immigrant neighbors
Some pastors and NC churches say they’re stepping up to protect local immigrants from ICE and Border Patrol raids.
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Billy Ball Explains NC: The great NC Christmas tree comeback
NC Christmas tree farms lost thousands of trees when Helene rolled through western NC in 2024. But wherever you look in 2025, those tree farms say they’re bouncing back.
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Video: NC Republicans could fully fund Medicaid if they wanted to, NC Dems says
NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, spoke with Cardinal & Pine last month as lawmakers had a chance to return to session and do something about Medicaid funding.
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Video: The Duke OB-GYNs behind the “Outlawed” podcast on abortion
Dr. Beverly A. Gray and Dr. Jonas Swartz co-host the “Outlawed” podcast, a North Carolina-based show that unpacks abortion bans, misinformation, and the human stories behind them.
