UNC will remove plaques at Kenan Stadium honoring Kenan family member who had ties to Wilmington massacre

Kenan Stadium

In a letter, Chancellor Carol Folt said the stadium will be named after William Kenan Jr., who donated his $95M fortune to name the stadium after his parents. William Sr. was the commander of a white supremacist paramilitary force, which massacred scores of black residents in Wilmington, on a single day in 1898. …read more

Source:: WRAL

Author: Cliff Barnes

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