Artists, Athletes, Educators Voice Support for Nikole Hannah-Jones Amid Issue of Tenure at UNC
Hundreds of artists, athletes and educators signed onto an open letter Tuesday morning, voicing solidarity with award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones following the news that UNC elected to postpone its review of her tenure application.
Hannah-Jones, who works for the New York Times, is set to return to her alma mater as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, a professorship that typically includes tenure. The UNC Board of Trustees, however, elected to “take no action” on her tenure application, which has led to increasing community outrage. The discourse continued Tuesday, with 238 people writing support for Hannah-Jones in an opinion column for the Black-oriented magazine The Root.
Black Politics After George Floyd
The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.
Illustration by Matt Williams
One night last summer, I saw a police van go up in flames, and I allowed myself to feel hope, something that had become quite foreign to me after the year’s many stupefying months. For a number of us who went out in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the sacking of the third precinct in Minneapolis, it was the first time we had encountered our friends with bigger fears than our breath. “When someone put their arms around me to pull me out of the way of a swinging baton, that still counts as an embrace,” I joked at the beginning of June. The speed and force with which the rebellions multiplied across the country triggered, surprisingly, an outpouring of support. Faced with a recurring display of police repression
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