As part of a promise from South Building to the students to publicly confront the University’s racial history, a seven-panel exhibit opened in the Carolina Hall front lobby in mid-November. read more
As part of a promise from South Building to the students to publicly confront the University’s racial history, a seven-panel exhibit has been opened in the Carolina Hall front lobby. read more
A group of African-American students has met with the chancellor, handing her five demands — about 45 fewer than were read at a town meeting on race relations two weeks ago. read more
Clarence Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was called in to moderate a town hall meeting on race and inclusion on the campus on Thursday, had barely begun to speak when a group of students took control of the event and recited a long… read more
African-American students representing the Real Silent Sam Coalition, the Black Student Movement and other campus organizations held a lengthy rally Friday to air what they called long-standing grievances over the racial climate on the campus. A… read more
Chancellor Carol L. Folt has appointed a task force to carry out the UNC trustees’ directive that the University open a dialogue on its racial history. When the trustees voted in May to remove the name of 19th century Ku Klux Klan leader… read more
Over the July 4 weekend, vandals defaced UNC’s monument to Confederate soldiers. The Daily Tar Heel published a photo online showing the words “KKK” and “murderer” spray painted on the monument. read more
William L. Saunders’ name is coming off the building on Polk Place where it has been in place for nearly a century. Replacing it will be a name that UNC’s trustees hope will be a unifying one: Carolina Hall. read more
These are excerpts from some of the speakers at the March 25 meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees’ University Affairs Committee about whether the name of William Saunders should be removed from Saunders Hall. For two hours, the committee… read more
Here’s how the movement to get William Saunders’ name off a classroom building gained momentum and resulted in the trustees’ decision in May. read more