Nicole Barnes, a track and field star from T. Wingate Andrews High School, in High Point, North Carolina, led the North Carolina Tar Heel athletes, as they Marched On in Chapel Hill…Nicole Barnes, is a leader, at UNC-Chapel Hill….Nicole Barnes, daughter of Earl Barnes, track and field coach, at High Point Andrews High School… **********What started in Tennessee, ended on Franklin Street********** from the News and Observer, in Raleigh, N.C./from C.L. Brown, with the News and Observer/CLICK HERE/www.newsobserver.com Nicole Barnes(High Point Andrews High School), a junior on North Carolina’s women’s track and field team, saw on social media that athletes…
Gathered info coming in, from the News and Observer, in Raleigh: A dozen protesters stood outside the administrative building at UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday afternoon arguing against the name of the university’s athletic teams, “Tar Heels,” because they say it has ties to the Confederacy and white supremacy. This group is the Union Soldier Campaign and they want the name “Tar Heels” dropped, and they want it replaced with the nickname Rams, for UNC/The University of North Carolina athletic teams…The UNC/North Carolina Rams, would be the new team name… (The group is calling on UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, the UNC…