{"id":688786,"date":"2018-10-03T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=688786"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:29:52","slug":"unc-will-remove-plaques-at-kenan-stadium-honoring-kenan-family-member-who-had-ties-to-wilmington-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=688786","title":{"rendered":"UNC will remove plaques at Kenan Stadium honoring Kenan family member who had ties to Wilmington massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-will-remove-plaques-at-kenan-stadium-honoring-kenan-family-member-who-had-ties-to-wilmington-massacre\/17891899\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2018\/10\/03\/17891905\/kenan_stadium-DMID1-5gcbkoxo5-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Kenan Stadium\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-will-remove-plaques-at-kenan-stadium-honoring-kenan-family-member-who-had-ties-to-wilmington-massacre\/17891899\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-will-remove-plaques-at-kenan-stadium-honoring-kenan-family-member-who-had-ties-to-wilmington-massacre\/17891899\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"UNC will remove plaques at Kenan Stadium honoring Kenan family member who had ties to Wilmington massacre\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}