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At UNC, the Damage Is Done
No matter what happens to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure, people of color have lost trust in Chapel Hill.
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Malinda Maynor Lowery, a history professor, is leaving the University of North Carolina because of a series of missteps. Riven by Discord June 29, 2021
This week, Erika K. Wilson will officially become a full professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill one of the few Black women to hold that title. But Wilson, who teaches law and public policy, has found it hard to celebrate.
She’s spent the last few weeks fuming that the university has failed to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
UNC-Chapel Hill’s refusal to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is emblematic of the systemic racism chronicled in Jones s 1619 Project.