'You can't escape the story': UNC class feels for indentations on Old East left by enslaved laborers

Posted Jun 7, 2026
A class of first-year students spent an hour carefully running their hands along the grooves of Old East's brick exterior. Their goal? To find signs of human creation — like a thumb mark, the indentation of a tool, or another non-environmental mark — reminiscent of the primarily Black slaves who sculpted each brick over 200 years ago. (Daily Tar Heel)

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