‘See me. We're here’: Chapel Hill's Black communities see a rise in student renters
Off-campus housing is a rite of passage for many. But available leases are oftentimes limited, and often bleed into permanent residential neighborhoods.
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Off-campus housing is a rite of passage for many. But available leases are oftentimes limited, and often bleed into permanent residential neighborhoods.
Private Facebook groups popular with thousands of UNC students may not be as private as they seem.
On the way back from a Spring Break trip in March, Peyton Lawson started to cough. By the time she got home, she had a fever.
Surrounding the edges of downtown Chapel Hill from the north and west, respectively, Northside and Pine Knolls communities have housed a large portion of Chapel Hill’s Black population since the areas were formed as labor enclaves during the Jim Crow era.
This is the second article in a series unpacking these documents, and what insights they offer on the fall reopening plans. The first part was about how the administration was warned about potential outbreaks in May.
This is the first article in a series unpacking these documents, and what insights they offer on the fall reopening plans.
Right now, it’s normal to feel abnormal.
Ask any student who’s moved off campus, or any first-year who’s been denied a parking space on campus: finding a long-term parking spot can feel like a treasure hunt.
In the past, Faydene Alston had only been a floor monitor in Davis Library. She took out the trash and cleaned floors.
Two drastically different events combined to stir political controversy in Chatham County over Valentine’s Day weekend.
Every February for the past 15 years, UNC's African American History Month Lecture has showcased a Black scholar to discuss their research. As of a couple weeks ago, however, none of the University bodies traditionally involved in planning the event could speak to concrete plans for its 2020 iteration.
An institution like UNC could not operate through administration alone. Students, faculty and staff also work for the University in a variety of ways, and many have raised questions about whether or not they are fairly compensated.
The Confederate monument, property of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, stands outside the Chatham County Courthouse in Pittsboro, NC, in the center of a traffic roundabout on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019.
Maya Little and other protestors oppose pro-Confederates from across the street near Horton Middle School in Pittsboro on Saturday, Oct.19, 2019.
Stephanie Terry, a Chatham resident and one of the event organizers, marches with the "Pittsboro: No Place For Hate" event on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. “We got to get these Confederate flags, and this racism and hate, symbols of terror in front of our middle school, down," she said. "This is a new day. It’s a new time, and the symbols and vestiges of hate and racism that live in people’s hearts and minds, it needs to come to an end. At the end of the day, we are all God’s children, and we are one human race.”
The Chatham County Sheriff's office pulls over a man driving a backhoe at a protest in Pittsboro on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of people arrested at a Sept. 28 protest in Pittsboro. Three people were issued criminal charges at the Sept. 28 protest, but two of those individuals were charged by citation and released at the scene. The article has been updated to reflect the change. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
A five-year suspension of UNC’s chapter of the co-ed business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi came earlier this year after violations related to alcohol, hazing and disruption of an investigation by the chapter’s national body.
UNC has a long history of Black activism. The first Black law students sued UNC for admission in 1951, students in the early 1970s protested the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, and today’s campus activism fights police and government surveillance.