UNC-Chapel Hill won't act on statue of Confederate soldier
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina Board of Governors will do nothing, for now, about an embattled Confederate monument on the public university system’s flagship campus. The News & Observer reports board chairman Harry Smith said in a Monday statement neither UNC-Chapel Hill nor the UNC system has legal authority to relocate the statue of a Confederate soldier known as “Silent Sam.” He cited a 2015 state law that bars moving historical monuments […]
