Reclaiming the University of the People
Racial Justice Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown explains the various reincarnations of student groups that have organized around the campus’s racialized geographies. https://uncofthepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/brown-blanche_rsscpreviousreincarnations1.mp3Continue Reading
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown chronicles how student engagement with justice movements has changed over time. https://uncofthepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/brown-blanche_paststudentgroups1.mp3 Interviewee Name: Blanche BrownContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown remembers the renaming of Saunders Hall and the activism of the Real Silent Sam Coalition, statingContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown describes how the University’s founding as an institution for North Carolina’s white male elite continues toContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown details her discovery of an archival record that stated William Saunders’s leadership of the Ku KluxContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how learning from past justice movements should inform the questions and responsibilities of current justiceContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how CHAT tied together movements for justice, working for racial justice, economic justice, and historicalContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose states the obvious responsibility of students to recognize the Black community of Chapel Hill as partContinue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains that the need for institutional self-preservation operates against student activism. https://uncofthepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/boose-donelle_pressure1.mp3 Interviewee Name: Donelle Boose Interviewer:Continue Reading
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose illustrates the personality and purpose-driven work of her friend, Yonni Chapman, and how his vision forContinue Reading