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Once again, Becki Gray made her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio with WUNC Politics host Jeff Tiberii. Joining Gray and Tiberii was Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 7:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour has given a local Confederate group 45 days to return Silent Sam to the University of North Carolina system.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2020 @ 11:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System hopes to return to square one with the Silent Sam case, a letter from a lawyer representing the UNC System said.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Superior Court judge has reversed course on a $2.5-million settlement granting a Confederate veterans group ownership of Silent Sam.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A civil rights organization is trying to send Confederate statue Silent Sam back to UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, a top official says.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Silent Sam deal might encourage copycats.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Friday, Dec. 20, Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour denied a civil rights group’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit over Silent Sam, the Confederate statue illegally toppled on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus in August 2018.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 2:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Forty protesters marched out of a Chapel Hill meeting room Friday, Dec. 13, raising their voices against a recent decision surrounding Silent Sam, the Confederate monument that formerly stood on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors has a transparency problem. Again.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The deal turns over the Confederate monument, which stood on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus for more than a century, to the Confederate group, along with a promised $2.5 million trust fund for the statue’s upkeep and eventual display.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Silent Sam may soon find a new home nowhere near the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 @ 8:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Silent Sam should not return to the Chapel Hill campus, the leader of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors says.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, Jan. 14, Folt announced her plans to leave her position in Chapel Hill at the end of the academic year and to remove Silent Sam's pedestal from campus.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 4:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Faculty Council last month approved a resolution for a faculty committee dedicated to providing input to university administration about what to do with the Confederate statue.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper shared the following statement on University of North Carolina's Chancellor Carol Folt's decision to remove the remainder of Silent Sam.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2019 @ 8:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Free speech is overwhelmingly popular in courtrooms around the United States, but the jury of public opinion doesn't support First Amendment rights, a conservative litigator and legal writer says
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dozens of protesters gathered in the rain outside the UNC Center for School Leadership Friday, Dec. 14, to protest the potential return of the Confederate statue dubbed "Silent Sam" to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Silent Sam soon may return to campus after the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to rehouse the Confederate memorial in a new, on-campus historic education center near UNC Medical Center
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 9:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to the toppling in August of the Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chancellor Carol Folt and other UNC leaders have proposed a controversial solution: a new $5.3 million building on campus that will cost $800,000 a year to operate
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 5:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a historic protest that ended in the illegal takedown of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, the university faces tough inquiries about campus security and law enforcement
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 12:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill stood the noble statue of "Silent Sam," the Confederate soldier who stood vigilant watch over the campus. It stood on McCorkle place, the University's upper quad, facing Franklin Street.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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To The Protesters of North Carolina's State Monuments and the Agitators Regarding the State History:Every day I get angrier and angrier at people who act out their aggressions which are based on lies, mistruths, and liberal indoctrination. I'm talking about the desecration and the toppling of the Silent Sam monument at Chapel Hill
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 4:12 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Politicians tell people what they want to hear. Leaders tell people what they need to hear, even if they don't want to listen
Published: Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Board of Trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill will make suggestions by Nov. 15 about what to do with Silent Sam, the campus’s controversial Confederate statue torn down by protesters, members of the university system’s Board of Governors say
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960's
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If critics of Confederate monuments truly want to accomplish their goal of removing such objects from the public square, I'm a good example of the kind of person they ought to be trying to persuade
Published: Saturday, August 18th, 2018 @ 2:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 2016 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic politicians, progressive activists, and left-leaning media outlets excoriated Pat McCrory and other North Carolina Republicans for elevating divisive social disputes above the issues that most voters care most about, such as creating jobs and impr
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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