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When Lamar Richards arrived at Carolina in 2019, he knew the history of the University. He knew that he was at an institution that, at one point in time, wouldn’t have allowed him in the classrooms simply because he is Black. Richards knew the history of the University’s struggle over integration decades before he was born and the role students played in opening campus up to all. “Students have been behind every sustainable and large change that’s happened at this University for its existence,” he said. “That’s just reality.” Richards wanted to be part of  that history and b...

Richards received 59.7 percent of the 3,219 votes cast in the election, defeating his opponent, junior Keshav Javvadi, by 851 votes, according to the results from the Board of Elections. 

The Editorial Board is endorsing Lamar Richards for student body president.

He's just 13-years-young and only in the grade, but already making moves. Elijah Lee, a Halifax County native, has been spending at least three years fighting for change in school and his community. "Just because I am young does not mean I can stay silent," Lee said in a virtual interview with ABC11. Young Elijah caught the activism spirit when he was 10-years-old and learned of a classmate who suffered from abuse at home. "That put a burden on my heart," said Lee. "They would go home to a parent that saw them differently than an innocent and vulnerable child. They would go home to a parent ...

Many students have expressed frustration with how the Chapel Hill Police Department handled the Feb. 6 Franklin Street rush, where approximately 1,000 people gathered, many without masks, after the UNC men's basketball team's win over Duke.