As the national fight to remove racist Confederate monuments forged on last year, two neo-Nazi vandals desecrated a monument that commemorated the enslaved Africans responsible for building the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC). In March 2019, Ryan Barnett and Nancy McCorkle thought it was an excellent idea to…
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UNC Coach Sylvia Hatchell Under Investigation for Racist Remarks, Ignoring Injuries
Sylvia Hatchell is a successful and well-known female basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. But now she’s being investigated for making racist remarks to her team and forcing them to play with injuries. There are a series of allegations of racist remarks, including Hatchell, a white woman, telling her players…
California Law Students Seek Redemption for an Asian Lawyer
By Julissa Catalan University of California, Davis law students have petitioned the state barand, soon, the Supreme Courtto credit an Asian lawyer who was initially denied a license in 1890 with posthumous admission to the California State Bar. Over a century ago, the state of California denied Hong Yen Chang…
UNC Students Rally to Rename Building Honoring KKK Leader
By Julissa Catalan Students at one of the oldest public education institutions in the country think it’s time for their school to get on the right side of history. The Real Silent Sam Coalition—a student- and alumni-created organization that hopes “to create honest and public dialogue and provoke critical thought…