Charlottesville

MATTHEWS: Republican slippery slope warnings bear out as Democrats target memorials to founding figures

July 10, 2019 Stacey Matthews

When Nike abandoned plans to sell a Betsy Ross flag-themed tennis shoe after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick expressed objections, 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro was asked by to weigh in on the matter. Castro […]

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Silent Sam’s last semester? Chapel Hill students protest for removal of Confederate statue

August 23, 2017 Mollie Young

CHAPEL HILL — Nearly 1,000 people rallied at the UNC Chapel Hill for the removal of “Silent Sam,” a Confederate soldier statue on the main campus on Tuesday. “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! These racist statues got […]

Gov. Cooper gives UNC green light to remove ‘Silent Sam’, UNC holds off, citing 2015 law

August 22, 2017 Jeff Moore

RALEIGH — Amid the furor in reaction to the August 12 Charlottesville, Virginia rally in support of confederate monuments that devolved into wanton violence between ‘AntiFa’ counterprotesters and white nationalist event sponsors, and ultimately culminated […]

LANDESBERG: Shine the light of journalism on white supremacists

August 16, 2017 admin

Stay with me on this. I support the recent Charlottesville march of Nazis and white supremacists. I don’t want to limit their free speech and assembly any more than I want someone to limit mine. […]

NOTHSTINE: Our broken identity and finger-pointing politics

August 16, 2017 Ray Nothstine

In his memoir “An Easy Burden,” American Civil Rights icon Andrew Young tells the story of a man racing up to him with a Confederate flag flying from his pickup truck while he was out […]

Merck CEO resigns from Trump council over Charlottesville

August 14, 2017 admin

By Michael Erman Reuters Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council on Monday, saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism. Trump denounced neo-Nazis […]

Trump calls neo-Nazis and KKK ‘criminals and thugs’