Tag: UNC Chapel Hill

Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season, Coming Fall 2022!

PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOWPublished in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Athletics, featuring 150 color images, on sale November 2022: The definitive source on this year’s UNC Basketball team, Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season by Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers, with a foreword by Hubert Davis, offers a behind-the-scenes… Continue Reading Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season, Coming Fall 2022!

Frank Porter Graham and Academic Freedom

The following is a guest blog post by William A. Link, author of Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World. Frank Porter Graham (1886–1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Charlotte, Graham became an active and popular student leader at the University of North Carolina. After earning… Continue Reading Frank Porter Graham and Academic Freedom

William Marshall on the Rights and Responsibilities of the First Amendment

As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus celebrates First Amendment Day today, we welcome a guest post from legal scholar and professor William Marshall, who teaches at the UNC Law School. He reminds us that with our freedom from government intrusion comes the responsibility for public engagement.–ellen Humorist, social critic, and cartoonist Walt Kelly once famously wrote,… Continue Reading William Marshall on the Rights and Responsibilities of the First Amendment

Those Who Don’t Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat it….

April 14, 2009 proved to be a dark day for progress and equality in, ironically, one of the most liberal collegiate atmospheres in the country. Forty-six years after the highly controversial Speaker Ban law was passed, it seems that the UNC Chapel Hill finds itself once again in the spotlight. In 1963, the Speaker Ban prohibited members of the Communist… Continue Reading Those Who Don’t Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat it….