UNC Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally voted to grant tenure to award-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, ending more than a month of controversy following the school's initial reluctance.

Silent Sam, the Confederate statue on the University of North Carolina's main campus that was toppled by protesters in August, will find a new, permanent home elsewhere on the school's sprawling grounds in Chapel Hill, university officials recommended.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was at the center of an act of vandalism when a Confederate statue was tagged with graffiti over the holiday weekend, WRAL reports. The university’s “Silent Sam” statue was covered with the words “murderer,” “KKK” and “Black Lives Matter,” the site writes. The exact time of the tagging is unknown, but administrators were […]