Fifty years have passed since the murder of James Cates on UNC’s campus, but the pain of his Chapel Hill community still lingers. Family, friends, elected officials and other community members gathered Saturday in the Northside neighborhood where Cates lived to honor the anniversary of his death. Stabbed by white supremacists during an altercation, the 22-year-old Black man died after he failed to receive proper medical attention during the early morning hours on November 21, 1970. Terrence Foushee, a cousin of Cates and a son of state Senator Valarie Foushee, spoke at the ceremony and urged the community to have deeper conversations about systemic racism. “Although Chapel Hill has afforded me a lot of opportunity,” he told Chapelboro, “my mom taught me to understand my skin is still sometimes something that people see as an issue or something to be feared. I’ve always had to have that double consciousness and to understand that [perspective] of myself being a Chapel Hillian and an ...