UNC chancellor announces plan to remove statue pedestal
North Carolina’s flagship public university plans to remove the pedestal where a now-toppled Confederate statue once stood from a main campus quad, its chancellor said Monday.University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt also announced that she will step down at the end of the school year.Folt said she was concerned about safety at the site that continues to draw protesters for and against the statue known as “Silent Sam,” but she gave no timetable for taking […]
