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Maya Little Isn’t Done Fighting White Supremacy at UNC
In April, she smeared blood and red paint on Silent Sam and got arrested. Earlier this month, she announced a TA strike during a protest and faced charges again. The antiracism community, she says, is only getting stronger.
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Love Local Beats? Get to Raund Haus Records’ Half-Off Bandcamp Sale
Fill out your local music collection with some quality cuts from the Durham collective.
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Mitch McConnell Is Still Tying to Give Thomas Farr a Lifetime Appointment to the Federal Bench
Jesse Helms’s former lawyer, who likely lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his involvement in voter suppression, could be approved during the lame-duck session.
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How to Get Around the Triangle Without a Car
The skinny on mass transit and other wants to get around
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Game On: Your Guide to the Triangle’s Sports Scene
It’s about more than college hoops. Honest.
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Monster in the Classroom: An Alleged Predator. A Precedent-Setting Prosecution. A School on the Edge.
Montessori School of Raleigh leader Nancy Errichetti was told a teacher had inappropriately touched one of his students. She didn’t report it. Should she go to prison?
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After Dueling Protests Last Week, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt Wants to Move the Toppled Silent Sam Permanently Out of Sight
Maya Little led the charge for anti-racism demonstrators, just as she has time and time again since covering UNC-Chapel Hill’s Silent Sam with her own blood at a protest in May. On Thursday night, the UNC graduate student’s “charge” was more literal: Little found herself at the front of a crowd of more than a […]
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Silent Sam Is Gone. While Activists Celebrate, Politicians Wring Their Hands About Mob Rule.
On Monday evening, UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Jerry Wilson hung a noose around his neck and vowed not to remove it until Silent Sam—the campus’s 105-year-old monument to students who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War—came down. At a rally called “Until They All Fall,” he encouraged the mostly white crowd of 150 […]
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After Decades of Calling for Silent Sam to Go, Protesters Tore the Damn Thing Down
As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, you get used to the constant noise around Silent Sam. You come to expect speeches from people like Maya Little, a graduate student who was charged with university honor code violations for covering the 105-year-old statue with her own blood earlier this year. […]