Race and Reckoning News

Four faculty chairs have proposed that Hamilton Hall be renamed for Pauli Murray, the Durham-raised civil rights activist who was denied admission to UNC in 1938 because of her race. read more

In the national cry for racial justice following the police killing of George Floyd, a group of UNC faculty issued what it called a Roadmap for Racial Equity. read more

The UNC trustees voted Wednesday to end the University’s 16-year moratorium on renaming of campus buildings. read more

In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis and the ensuing nationwide outcry against police killings of African Americans, UNC’s administration issued a message of empathy and shared outrage that included a list of… read more

After emancipation, Wilson Caldwell worked through the Republican Party to forge a biracial alliance of 
former slaves and sympathetic whites. read more

The administration of Kevin Guskiewicz says it wants UNC to “study and heal from its past,” and on the first day of spring classes it rolled out some details of what it plans to do with the $5 million commitment he announced as he began his… read more

Somewhere between 30 and 600 people died in 1898 in the Wilmington insurrection/race riot/massacre — it’s been called all three by different people at different times. It’s also been called the only successful coup d’etat in American… read more