Neighbors want to know why crews have spent months drilling deep underground on a 500-acre tract in Yadkin County. The company executive who ordered the work is offering few answers.
Hannah-Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A university spokesman, Joel Curran, told
The Chronicle that Hannah-Jones’s lawyers had sent a letter to Chapel Hill, too. Curran declined to comment further.
NC Policy Watch that she had retained counsel “to ensure the academic and journalistic freedom of Black writers is protected to the full extent of the law and to seek redress for the University of North Carolina’s adverse actions against me.”
In her statement to the news outlet, she pointed to the “wave of antidemocratic suppression that seeks to prohibit the free exchange of ideas, silence Black voices, and chill free speech” as reasons she had decided to “fight back.”