UNC officials condemn old yearbook photos of students in Klan robes, blackface

Posted Feb 7, 2019
University of North Carolina officials on Thursday condemned photos from UNC-Chapel Hill's 1979 yearbook that show some students wearing white hoods and robes pretending to lynch another student in blackface. "There's a number of things about our past that we need to understand and deal with," UNC Interim President Dr. Bill Roper said. (WRAL.com)

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