As Black Lives Matter protests renewed national conversations about race over the summer, Black artists at UNC were trying to think about how they could use their respective mediums to process their emotions and send a message. Here are some of their stories.
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As protests for racial justice grew around the country, these designers pledged to donate all revenue from their new designs to various local and national charities, ranging from the NAACP to the Know Your Rights Camp.
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The Commission on Campus Equality and Student Equity's resolution calls for full remote instruction and limitations on the number of students living on campus. The resolution came in response to the concerns students and Chapel Hill residents have expressed regarding UNC's reopening plans. “The only way we can make sure that everyone is safe, and everyone has access to an equitable education experience, is by offering all courses virtually and de-densifiying our dorms,” said Chairperson Lamar Richards.
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During the Faculty Executive Committee's first official meeting for the 2020-21 school year, administrators and community members discussed important updates for fall reopening, including COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, UNC athletics and diversity and equity initiatives.
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The UNC Board of Governors Racial Equity Task Force met for the first time Thursday to outline the group's mission and the work it plans to do over the next several months. The task force will focus on three key areas: equity in student recruitment, enrollment and success outcomes, recruiting and retaining "diverse and equity minded practitioners and leaders" and creating safe and inclusive campuses.
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A UNC sociology professor is under fire for the use of role-playing pedagogy in his classroom after a student went public with allegations that he created an unsafe learning environment for students of color within his Social and Economic Justice class last semester. The student also said she felt her issues with the class were at times “blatantly ignored and unaddressed” and that the professor didn’t initiate conversations regarding her and other students’ concerns about how the class addressed issues of race.
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"We need to do better, and as a student newspaper that claims to train the next generation of journalists, that change has to start with us. So, we’re changing our social media and conflict of interest policies to remove barriers that prevented our staffers from expressing themselves, as a recognition that our identities can enrich our reporting."
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Two UNC professors presented a roadmap for racial equity that has been in development for over a year at Monday's Faculty Executive meeting. The roadmap calls for sustained actions over the course of three years, including renaming campus buildings in an inclusive process, establishing faculty advisory groups on racial equity and holding an annual UNC Board of Trustees meeting with Black and Indigenous faculty, and faculty of color.
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In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to incoming senior class president Chris Suggs; incoming Black Student Movement president Tamiya Troy; Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Outreach committee co-chairpersons Chaz Crosby and Maya Logan; and Interim Chief Diversity Officer Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, to better understand what impact the movement, against police brutality and for racial equity, will have on the upcoming semester.
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After the Orange County Schools Board of Education had its first joint meeting with the Equity Task Force, Orange County Schools are now finding ways to combat the racial achievement gap.
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The Diversity in Science Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly event hosted by the University Libraries to discuss diversity and inclusion in science.
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A new documentary hopes to ignite change by shedding light on CHCCS and how since integration, racial disparities have taken shape and continue to persist.
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In a conversation with senior writer Amena Saad, Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP President Anna Richards discusses the most rewarding and challenging parts of her job, as well as the future of the chapter.
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The Hispanic and Asian populations grew one percent and 10 percent in Chapel Hill, respectively. The increase brings with it new efforts by the Town of Chapel Hill to help immigrants to feel more involved in the local community.
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Bars, like the Pinhook in Durham, have been safe places to discuss and share for the LGBTQ+ community.
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Chapel Hill has scored its highest score ever in the LGBTQ+ Equality Index, but due to limitations from HB2, it cannot meet all the needs it wants to.
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“Look across the campus. We are in national news for diversity issues. That’s not good."
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Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor G. Rumay Alexander will be resigning at the end of this academic year, continuing a turnover trend of UNC officials.
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To celebrate Women’s History Month, read the stories of four influential women entrepreneurs in the Chapel Hill and Durham communities. From furniture to boba tea, art to African cuisine, these women are running the local business scene. And with women entrepreneurs in the U.S. having increased by 114 percent in the last 20 years, totaling about 40 percent of businesses overall, it's no big surprise.
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Genevieve Lowry Cole became the first Native American woman to graduate UNC in 1954. More than 60 years later, she works with current students to help them achieve their goals, as well.
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