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UNC honors its first three Black undergraduates, 55 years on
John Lewis Brandon and LeRoy and Ralph Frasier returned to UNC for a weekend of tributes marking 55 years since they enrolled, including a Friday dinner at which the Rev. William Barber called them heroes.
People: LeRoy Frasier · Ralph Frasier · William J. Barber II
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William J. Barber II speaks at a rally at Silent Sam on its 100th anniversary
On the Confederate monument's 100th anniversary, William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, spoke at a rally at its foot organized by the Real Silent Sam Committee, saying the statue had never been silent.
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William J. Barber II gives the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
William J. Barber II delivered UNC's 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship in Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall, speaking on the morality of citizenship.
Subject: Hill Hall
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William J. Barber II is named a MacArthur Fellow
The MacArthur Foundation named William J. Barber II, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
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William J. Barber II gives the Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture at UNC
William J. Barber II spoke on poverty and inequality at the UNC School of Social Work's Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building to nearly 300 people, with about 750 more online.
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