“The conversations were great and I think that’s where I got my knowing there’s two sides to every story. And I’ve carried that up through my kids and my grandkids.”                      

                                                                                      David Caldwell, Jr., June 9, 2017

Over the course of the last few weeks, I have spent time getting to know a man whose family seems to represent what it has meant to be black in Chapel Hill over time.

David Caldwell, Jr., is, at about six and a half feet, an imposing figure with a warm smile and easy laugh. Since the founding of UNC…