Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

UNC Says No To Speech By White Nationalist Richard Spencer

The Old Well and flowers on the campus of UNC- Chapel Hill.
Brian Batista
/
For WUNC
The University of North Carolina has rejected a request by white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus.

The University of North Carolina has rejected a request by white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus.

Spencer is a leader of the white nationalist movement and attended demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted into deadly in mid-August.

Chancellor Carol Folt wrote to the campus community on Wednesday that she declined a request for Spencer's National Policy Institute to rent space for him to speak because of "serious concerns about campus safety."

In the aftermath of Charlottesville, hundreds gathered last week at the University of North Carolina to protest a Confederate statue on the Chapel Hill campus. That rally was largely peaceful.

Separately, protesters toppled a Confederate statue in nearby Durham on Aug. 14.

The University of Florida also recently denied a request for Spencer to speak there.
 

The Associated Press is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, international subscribers and commercial customers. AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, it's a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members.
Related Stories
More Stories