Diversity and Multicultural Affairs

A panel of undergraduate and graduate students share their coming-out experiences for the LGBTQ Center’s Coming Out Week on Wednesday.

Students get emotional during Coming Out panel

By Bradley Saacks | October 9

Travis St. Brice began to choke up.

Supreme Court lets marriage rulings stand

By Mary Tyler March | October 7

In a landmark decision for gay rights, the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday to let stand rulings in five states striking down gay marriage bans — ...

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The brief, wondrous visit of Junot Diaz at UNC

By Katie Reilly | October 6

Junot Diaz spent a couple of hours challenging convention in Memorial Hall on Saturday night.

Q&A with Census analyst Kurt Bauman

By Elizabeth Matulis | October 6

After growing by 3.2 million between 2006 and 2011, college enrollment in the United States has declined for the past two years, according to data from ...

Student group event delves in Latina/o identity issue

By Victoria Mirian | October 2

It's not something that's talked about a lot. But for the Latino students at UNC, it's something that's felt everyday. 

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships revoked at last minute

By Brielle Kronstedt | October 2

The federal government confirmed funding for a substantial fellowship program Wednesday — two months after UNC students needed to hear it.

Only 9 male undergraduates are education majors at UNC

By Sara Salinas | September 25

The population of undergraduate men in UNC’s School of Education can be counted on two hands.

The UNC chapter of the NAACP and the Xi Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity hosted "I Am A Human", a panel that discussed recent minority injustices and possible strategic solutions featured the UNC Harmonyx on Tuesday evening.

'I am a human' panel discusses racial tensions at UNC

By Megan Morris | September 17

Ferguson, Mo., is more than 800 miles away from Chapel Hill, but conversations surrounding civil rights issues have become a topic of relevance everywhere. ...

Freshmen Janice Ezenwa and Shawn Hines attended the First Year Experience basketball and volleyball tournament in Rams Head Recreation Center on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014.

Freshman class is more diverse but UNC is not yet satisfied

By Bri Cotton and Langston Taylor | September 16

Freshman Juan Ortiz was told repeatedly to expect to have mostly white classmates at UNC, but it still came as a surprise.

Diversity Job and Internship Fair kicks off three days of career fairs

By Bradley Saacks | September 10

For freshman Jeremy Cleary, Wednesday’s Diversity Job and Internship Fair was his first real opportunity to explore his career options.

Charlotte advocates for immigrants want community centers

By Virginia Weir | May 19

Laundromats in Charlotte, N.C., may see more change than loose coins in the future.

Recent court rulings affect UNC committees

By Jenny Surane | April 25

New federal legislation has forced some UNC Faculty Council committees to rethink how they will recommend and implement changes to the University. ...

People rally outside of Saunders Hall Wednesday afternoon. The Real Silent Sam Coalition is calling for the Board of Trustees to rename the building, because its namesake, William L. Saunders, directed North Carolina KKK activities in the late 1860s.

Students call on trustees to rename Saunders Hall

By Julia Craven | April 23

“We will not bow down to racism. We will not bow down to injustice. We will not bow down to exploitation.”

UNC works on minority representation in study abroad programs

By David Lindars and Amy Watson | April 20

This past academic year, 1,219 students at UNC studied abroad, but awareness and availability of funds often determines who those students are.

Panelists - from left to right - Michael Lambert, Ken Brown, Bereket Selassie, and Ron Strauss, talk at the First Installment of the Nelson Mandela Lunch Panel Discussion on Monday afternoon in the Fed Ex Global Center.

Nelson Mandela remembered through UNC programs

By Amanda Raymond | April 7

Nelson Mandela is gone but not forgotten thanks to two programs at UNC.

Trey Mangum, a junior Journalism major, is the new president of the Black Student Movement.

Black Student Movement’s new president Trey Mangum focused on campus visibility

By Sara Salinas | April 2

UNC’s Black Student Movement will have a booming voice on campus next year if Trey Mangum dirhas a say in the matter.

Alix Desch is the Operations Manager of the 2014 Tunnel of Oppression. The Tunnel of Oppression is a tour that engages participants in a number of first hand forms of oppression through interactive acting, viewing monologues and forms of multimedia. The tours began on Monday, March 31 and will continue until Wednesday, April 2 in Cobb Residence Hall.

Tunnel of Oppression puts focus on discrimination

By Tyler J. Rouse | April 1

UNC’s interactive multicultural tour, Tunnel of Oppression, is back for its fifth consecutive year to challenge students to rethink their role ...

Osiris Rankin, a senior psychology major, Darius Whitney, a senior political science major, and Dr. Juan Carrillo, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Education, discuss their place in the university setting and the challenges they have faced as minority males at a Carolina Millennial Scholars Program's event entitled "The [Mis]sed Education of the Minority Male" Thursday evening in Wilson Library.

Minority men detail ups and downs of UNC life

By Sarah Chaney | March 27

He would sit in the front row, feeling invisible and scared to even raise his hand.

Low black male retention causes concern

By Sarah Niss | October 10

When senior Mycal Brickhouse looked around at the crowd of a minority male forum he attended in January, he noticed something was missing.

Q&A with Maria DeGuzman

By Breanna Kerr | September 30

Maria DeGuzman, English professor and director of Latina/o Studies at UNC, is hosting a book reading today at 10 a.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly ...