Judge Rejects Civil Rights Group’s Attempt to Nix UNC’s $2.5M Deal with Confederate Organization Over Civil War Statue

A judge decided on Friday to deny the motion filed by a civil rights group to intervene in the settlement made between the University of North Carolina and a Confederate group over a controversial Civil War statue called ‘Silent Sam’.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights filed a motion to stop the $2.5 million settlement between the University of Nort…