Race and Reckoning News

The University has issued an open call for suggestions of new names for three campus buildings whose original names were removed last year because of their namesakes’ ties to white supremacy. read more

UNC’s Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward and Kenan-Flagler Business School are working together to honor the approximately 120 enslaved people buried in Barbee Cemetery. read more

A lingering question from the Silent Sam saga — how the state’s university system negotiated the disposition of the statue on the Chapel Hill campus with a Confederate advocacy group — has been answered in a legal settlement. read more

UNC researchers, Chapel Hill community members and government leaders and family members of James Cates are the backbone of a committee formed to spend a year reviewing the events of a night in November 1970, when Cates was fatally attacked at a… read more

The University’s Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward recommended that John Washington Graham’s name be removed from the 96-year-old residence hall on what used to be called the Men’s Lower Quad. read more

The University’s Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward has recommended removal of two more names from campus buildings because of their ties to white supremacy violence. read more

More than 1,200 people across the campus have signed the Roadmap for Racial Equity that calls for action on a list of items intended to increase the presence of people of color in the faculty; rename buildings that bear the names of people… read more

Profiles of the men whose names were removed from four campus buildings, produced by the History, Race and a Way Forward Commission from its research. read more

Charles B. Aycock (class of 1880), Josephus Daniels (class of 1885), Julian S. Carr and Thomas Ruffin Sr. have left the buildings. read more