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Mike Ogle
@mikeogling
Once threw a bounce pass to Michael Jordan. Used to sports write. (NYT, ESPN, SI, BASW notable). Now writing about history and today at https://t.co/dERTLXaTm1
Oct 26, 2018 • 117 tweets • 25 min read
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James L. Cates Jr., a lifelong resident of Chapel Hill’s historically black Northside neighborhood, would’ve turned 70 this weekend. But at 22, he was stabbed and left to die at the heart of @UNC’s campus in 1970. This will be a (long) thread about the circumstances surrounding James Cates’s death, and the role of UNC and police.