Monday, June 22, 2020

Jun 22, 2020

The Board of Trustees members voted on June 17th to lift a 16-year ban on renaming buildings, monuments and landscapes on UNC’s campus. To better understand what this moratorium meant, how this decision will affect the University moving forward and how campus leaders are responding, host Evely Forte spoke to summer university desk editor Maydha Devarajan and former DTH reporter Hannah McClellan. Reporting by Maydha Devarjan and Hannah McClellan. Episode co-edited and co-produced by Evely Forte and Meredith Radford. 

For further reading: 

• Ban on renaming buildings on campus is lifted, BOT votes, by Maydha Devarajan 
• The history behind the names of UNC's academic buildings, by Hannah McClellan
• UNC community members call for action in response to racial injustice, by Hannah McClellan