Zebulon Vance

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday ordered the city of Asheville and Buncombe County to halt the demolition of a Confederate monument while an appeal plays out.

Removal of the Vance Monument from downtown Asheville's Pack Square can move forward after a Buncombe County judge denied a motion to halt it Monday.

Asheville City Council voted Tuesday evening to remove the Vance Monument from its spot in the city's main public space. The monument is named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor and U.S. senator. Vance and his family enslaved people prior to the war, and he fought vehemently against full civil rights for Black Americans after it.

Buncombe County Commissioners voted unanimously to remove a Confederate monument from a downtown square following a recommendation from a task force.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's decision to rename Vance High for civil rights attorney Julius Chambers goes counter to what many students at the school had hoped for. But the principal and a senior who served on the naming committee say they think students will warm to the new name.

Vance High School will be renamed Tuesday, possibly for civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers.

Asheville City schools will rename Vance Elementary School in West Asheville. Superintendent Gene Freeman made the announcement Tuesday at a board of...

Superintendent Earnest Winston said Tuesday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will get rid of all school names "that many in our community say glorify a…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' Zebulon Vance High isn't likely to have that name much longer. But the name and the school are deeply entangled with the…

Zebulon Vance was a Confederate general, a slaveholder, a North Carolina governor and a U.S. senator -- but he won't be the namesake for a…