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Black students, faculty: UNC needs self-examination on race
By ANNIE MA Associated Press July 7, 2021 5:36pm Text size Copy shortlink:
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work examining the legacy of slavery, Black students and faculty at UNC saw yet another example of the institution s failure to welcome and support scholars and students of color.
For years, Black students and faculty at UNC have expressed frustration with the way they are treated, from disproportionate scrutiny by campus police to th
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As global COVID-19 deaths top 4 million, a suicide in Peru
AREQUIPA, Peru (AP) â On the last day of Javier Vilca s life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up a giant, hand-scrawled sign that read: âDon t give up. You re the best man in the world.â
Minutes later, Vilca, a 43-year-old struggling radio journalist who had battled depression, jumped four stories to his death â the fifth suicide by a COVID-19 patient at Peru s overwhelmed Honorio Delgado hospital since the pandemic began.
Vilca became yet another symbol of the despair caused by the coronavirus and the stark and seemingly growing inequities exposed by COVID-19 on its way to a worldwide death toll of 4 million, a milestone recorded Wednesday by Johns Hopkins University.
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Originally published on July 7, 2021 4:35 pm
A coalition of groups representing Black students and faculty met at UNC Chapel Hill Wednesday to describe their vision for a safer campus in the wake of the fight over tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. We re here today, not in celebration of Nikole Hannah-Jones being awarded tenure, but instead standing here to acknowledge that tenure was the bare minimum, said Julia Clark, vice president of the UNC Black Student Movement.
Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday she was rejecting a job offer from the UNC Chapel Hill and instead going to Howard University, a historically Black institution.