It has been a busy few days around Chapel Hill. It was move-in weekend with thousands of new and returning UNC students coming back to town. Convocation kicking off the fall semester was on Sunday night.

Some of those students, faculty and community members are expected to take to Peace and Justice Plaza on Franklin Street Monday night, just across the roadway from the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam on the Chapel Hill campus.

The protest is billed as being “in solidarity with Maya Little who faces criminal trial for covering Silent Sam in paint and her own blood.”

Little, a graduate student in the history department at UNC, was arrested and charged this spring after defacing the monument. Little has been one of the lead organizers in a series of protests calling for the removal of Silent Sam following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August where a counterprotester was killed.

Little, in addition to the criminal charges, is also facing honor court proceedings, which she said could lead to her expulsion.

UNC – Chapel Hill recently released thousands of public record documents detailing the work leading up to and since a similar rally around Silent Sam last August.

Monday’s protest is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Monday also marks the first day on the job in Chapel Hill for Maurice Jones, who is set to take over as the next town manager. Jones had served as the city manager for the City of Charlottesville up until his contract was not renewed earlier this year. Jones will take over the role being vacated by Roger Stancil, who is retiring on September 1.

The fall semester at UNC is scheduled to begin on Tuesday.

The North Carolina Historical Commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday and hear a study committee report considering a request from Democratic Governor Roy Cooper to move three Confederate monuments from the old Capitol Grounds to a Civil War battlefield in Johnston County.

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