The president of Southwest Baptist University announced his resignation this week, a move that comes amid a period of turmoil for the school. President Eric Turner started his role in 2018, and controversy between the school and its affiliated convention, the Missouri Baptist Convention, marked his term. 

Fair Wayne Bryant left the Louisiana State Penitentiary after serving 23 years of a life sentence for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers. The 63-year-old African American man received parole on Oct. 15 and went to a transitional program, where he will stay until eventually moving in with his brother in Shreveport.

In early October, Philadelphia officials reached a compromise with activists and homeless people who camped out to protest the city’s lack of low-income housing. After months of negotiating, the city agreed to transfer 50 properties to a land trust the activists will establish, and the campers agreed to disperse.

In mid-June, protesters marched through the streets of New Orleans calling for the city to defund the police department and shift the money to social services. Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson responded by reviewing reforms his department had made in the last decade.

Trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) voted on Monday to keep its founders’ names on seminary buildings, despite accusations from some black Southern Baptists that doing so celebrates slaveholders.

SBTS trustees had gathered virtually for their annual fall meeting and addressed whether to remove the names of the seminary’s founders from buildings on campus and the undergraduate school. Some Southern Baptists have been calling for the change: The seminary’s founders were slaveholders and active supporters of the Confederacy.

Kree Paw heard her mother’s stories of hiding from oppressive Burmese soldiers in the country’s thick jungles. Paw, 28, grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. Her mother described fleeing their village in Burma, also known as Myanmar, each time soldiers came through.

Over the summer, experts began noticing the coronavirus didn’t seem to spread among the U.S. homeless population as much as many feared. But it’s still having an impact: The number of homeless people dying this year may be on the rise.