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- ↑ News & Observer: Becton to represent state's lawyers ("In 2003, Judge Allyson K. Duncan of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the first black woman to head the group")
- ↑ WRAL: NCCU chancellor to retire
- ↑ WAVY: Interim chancellor named
- ↑ UNC System press release
- ↑ Quiet revolution in the South By Chandler Davidson, Bernard Grofman