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UNC Chapel Hill Under Fire for Blackface Photos in Yearbook
By Jessicah Raynor Chapel Hill
PUBLISHED 7:19 PM EST Feb. 06, 2019
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- UNC Chapel Hill is receiving backlash after photos from a 1979 yearbook resurfaced online.

One of the images shows one Chi Phi fraternity member with a painted blackface alongside two other members dressed in Ku Klux Klan attire. The person in blackface also has a noose around their neck as if they are being lynched.

The resurfacing of these pictures comes after two Virginian politicians were revealed to have also done blackface in one of their yearbook photos.

Joel Curran, vice chancellor for communications, released a statement saying, "The photos found in the 1979 student yearbook are abhorrent. We fully and wholly condemn both the photos and the racist behavior they depict. That kind of behavior has no place on our campus now or then."

The university also released a tweet condemning the photos found on page 400.

The University condemns the behavior depicted in these photos. Racism has no place on our campus

— UNC-Chapel Hill (@UNC) February 6, 2019
More photos found from a 1970, 1972, and 1977 yearbook can be found below.