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Charlottesville removes Confederate statue at center of deadly 2017 protest Sunday, 11 July 2021 5:07 AM
[ Last Update: Sunday, 11 July 2021 6:49 AM ] A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed after years of a legal battle over the contentious monument, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the US, July 10, 2021. (Reuters photo)
A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after a violent white supremacist protest in the city resulted in the death of a peaceful counter-protester.
The city’s officials took down the statue early in the morning and several hours later also removed Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson s statue.
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MSNBC is continuing to promote the widely discredited 1619 Project and its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones. On Tuesday’s
The Beat,
guest host Jason Johnson brought on MSNBC’s 7:00 pm ET hour host Joy Reid to discuss Hannah-Jones’s decision to leave The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for a position at Howard University, a historically black university.
Reid slammed UNC for not offering Hannah-Jones tenure sooner. She ranted about the university’s delayed decision, claiming that they allowed one conservative board member to decide whether Hannah-Jones would receive tenure and humiliated her. She stated that even though some conservatives at the school may think this is a victory, ultimately, they will lose more faculty and recruits. She launched into tirade to Johnson:
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Black students, faculty: UNC needs self-examination on race
By ANNIE MA Associated Press July 7, 2021 5:36pm Text size Copy shortlink:
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work examining the legacy of slavery, Black students and faculty at UNC saw yet another example of the institution s failure to welcome and support scholars and students of color.
For years, Black students and faculty at UNC have expressed frustration with the way they are treated, from disproportionate scrutiny by campus police to th