“They are squeezing us.”
Sara Pequeño
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UNC Police Chief Resigns After Less Than Two Years on the Job
Rasheem Holland, who scuffled with student protestors last week during the tenure vote for Nikole Hannah-Jones, will serve as interim chief.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Will Not Come to UNC, But Instead Will Take a Position at Howard University
“It is not my job to heal the University of North Carolina.”
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees, Following Weeks of Protest and Outcry From the University Community
Four trustees voted against tenureship for the acclaimed journalist in a special meeting held Wednesday afternoon.
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Surry County Made National News for Its Commissioners’ Conservative Showmanship. It’s Not the First Time.
Turns out, this piece of political theater did ultimately hurt only the 37 people who work at Surry County’s Coca-Cola bottling plant, and Coca-Cola Consolidated, its parent company in Charlotte.
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Breaking Down Where Your Tax Money Will Go This Year If You Live In Orange County
Tax rates may be lower but residents could end up paying more due to property revaluations.
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Quickbait: A Juneteenth Timeline
Juneteenth goes by several names: Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day are just a few. Here’s a bit of history on June 19, the oldest national holiday celebrating the commemoration of the end of slavery.
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Thom Tillis and Other Republican Senators Try to Keep ‘The 1619 Project’ Out of Schools
Tillis is trying to protect our state’s children from the “radical ideology” that slavery was bad.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Experience with UNC Is Emblematic Of a Common Struggle for Black Women in Academia
UNC-Chapel Hill’s refusal to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is emblematic of the systemic racism chronicled in The 1619 Project.
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Prominent Chemistry Professor Declines Invitation to UNC, Cites Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Case
Dr. Lisa Jones, a prominent Black chemist currently teaching at the University of Maryland, withdrew her candidacy to join the UNC faculty due to the “disheartening” news that Nikole Hannah-Jones was not offered tenure.