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• SOURCE: The Progressive Pulse
  1/31/20
  

  UNC Historian Cecelia Moore delves into true history of “Silent Sam” in court brief

  This week UNC alumni and donors — and a prominent former university historian — filed briefs in the case insisting the the university will have to face the historical facts and answer those complicated questions if it intends to give the “Silent Sam” monument to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/15/19
  

  Lawsuit seeks to overturn Silent Sam settlement at UNC

  A settlement announced abruptly by the University of North Carolina System and its board of governors last month gives the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans all rights to the statue, bans the monument from any of the 14 counties with a UNC institution and creates a $2.5 million independent charitable trust for its preservation. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/3/19
  

  Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

  by William Sturkey

  The University of North Carolina’s settlement over a controversial statue is a subsidy for white nationalism.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  December 1, 2019
  

  UNC Will Give Silent Sam to a Confederate Group — Along With a $2.5-Million Trust

  by Brock Read

  Student and faculty activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally received on Wednesday an assurance they’d long sought — an email from Kevin Guskiewicz, the interim chancellor, telling them that the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam “will never return to our campus.” Yet few of those activists were satisfied.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/19/19
  

  Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively

  The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

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• SOURCE: dailytarheel.com
  4-21-17
  

  UNC history department in uproar after a professor’s course on sports history was cancelled

  “[W]e believe that the College took this action to block broader understanding of the recent scandals in UNC’s major intercollegiate athletic programs."

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• SOURCE: The Charlotte Observer
  11-2-15
  

  Glenda Gilmore says Margaret Spellings must accept gays or resign from UNC

  by Glenda Gilmore

  She won’t address her previous animosity toward gays.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-10-15
  

  When Building Names Honor Racists, Universities Must Tread Carefully

  As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grapples with striking a balance between history and sensitivity to students, similar debates are roiling universities across the country, particularly in the South.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-22-14
  

  Black studies professor in the middle of exploding scandal at the University of North Carolina

  Julius Nyang’oro was the professor of record for many of the fake classes.