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(04/09/20 2:59am)
The UNC System won’t be getting fully repaid on a $2.5 million trust it provided a controversial Confederate group last year in a backdoor deal that has since crumbled under public scrutiny and a judge’s re-examination.
(03/26/20 5:06am)
A court order last month retroactively killed the UNC System’s backdoor dealing of Silent Sam to a Confederate group after months of nationwide criticism, legal challenges and undisclosed leaks detailing a courtroom collusion effort.
(01/31/20 4:30am)
A small circle of UNC System leaders gave $74,999 to the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc. two months ago, advancing a larger goal that both groups have concealed from public knowledge.
(01/22/20 5:57pm)
A decorated government watchdog is attributing years of illegal political activity to the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc. in a new complaint to the State Board of Elections, recommending major penalties against the pro-Confederate nonprofit that received a $2.5 million trust and $74,999 payment through backdoor dealings with the UNC System last November.
(01/10/20 6:04am)
UPDATE: As a result of this reporting by The Daily Tar Heel and independent follow-up research, veteran campaign finance watchdog Bob Hall filed a complaint with North Carolina's State Board of Elections on Jan. 22. He recommended major penalties against the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc. that include the disgorgement of $28,500 that the NC Heritage PAC has contributed to Republican officials statewide since 2016.
(12/14/19 8:55pm)
Internal conflict has intensified within the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc. since its questionable settlement with the UNC System weeks ago.
(12/03/19 8:00pm)
When the UNC System announced it had settled a lawsuit that the public hadn’t yet heard about last week, Kevin Stone began celebrating his secret role in a “major strategic victory” for the pro-Confederate movement.
(11/19/19 7:51am)
The U.S. Department of Education concluded in August that UNC violated campus safety laws for years to an extent that can’t be fully measured, including by providing inadequate systems for sexual violence victims, omitting dozens of serious crimes from annual reports, violating a federal non-retaliation provision and demonstrating a lack of administrative capability that “remains a matter of serious concern for the department.”
(11/18/19 11:58pm)
The U.S. Department of Education concluded in August that UNC violated campus safety laws, including by providing inadequate systems for sexual violence victims, omitting dozens of serious crimes from annual reports, violating a federal non-retaliation provision and demonstrating a lack of administrative capability that “remains a matter of serious concern.”
(10/01/19 12:41am)
When pondering the kinds of playlists I could make to give some embodiment to journalism's importance, I decided to just throw together some Rage Against the Machine songs.
(09/23/19 2:51pm)
From its inception, UNC and its stakeholders played a major role in building and preserving slavery-based wealth, according to archival documents, data and historian accounts.
(09/19/19 5:18pm)
The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a man on Wednesday who has long coordinated death threats, harassment and personal information exposure throughout the country, including toward UNC students and faculty.
(09/04/19 3:33am)
Sophomore De’Ivyion Drew was sitting in a lecture on Aug. 20, the first day of classes, when a text alert informed her that four members of a Confederate group were armed at the entrance of UNC’s campus.
(04/26/19 3:03am)
UNC Police arrested Student Veterans Assistance Coordinator Amber Mathwig on Wednesday after she refused to stop sitting on the steps of a campus building that was being used for an unannounced police training exercise.
(04/22/19 3:03am)
A man affiliated with pro-Confederate groups live-streamed two visits to UNC’s campus over the last two weeks in which he indicated violent intentions while commenters directed their own threats toward students.
(04/08/19 3:35am)
Two days before he was scheduled for a fifth court appearance last month, history graduate student Mark Porlides learned all charges stemming from his arrest during a Silent Sam demonstration last year had been dismissed.
(03/28/19 3:35am)
A UNC Police officer has been accused of lying in a testimony that led to pending criminal convictions and a jail sentence against a student, according to a motion citing evidence that “flatly and directly contradicts” claims the officer made under oath.
(03/22/19 3:55am)
Update 3:05 p.m.: Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said Saturday's incident is under review in an email sent to the University community Friday afternoon. The University will also convene an assessment team to "review all significant campus police actions and major emergency management and public safety events in the future," the email said.
(02/14/19 5:39am)
UNC’s overnight removal of an activist-placed memorial for a Black UNC student murdered on campus by a white supremacist gang in 1970 has sparked new challenges to the same law complicating Silent Sam’s fate.
(02/11/19 5:37am)
Multiple UNC Honor System members, including the Graduate and Professional Court’s chairperson and attorney general, will testify at a public hearing Tuesday as graduate student activist Maya Little appeals sanctions brought against her last year.