UNC Chapel Hill chemistry faculty warn that the university’s failure to hire renowned black journalist with tenure has ‘dire’ recruitment repercussions
As Anti-Riot Laws Pass, Legal Challenges Grow By
Cara Bayles | June 6, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
Police arrested Black Lives Matter protesters in Columbus Ohio last summer. A few months later, state lawmakers proposed a bill that would have created stiff penalties for protesters who block traffic, and create affirmative defenses for people who harm or kill rioters. The bill failed, but similar legislation is still pending in many states. (Photo by Stephen Zenner / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law what he called the strongest anti-looting, anti-rioting, pro-law-enforcement piece of legislation in the country, two different federal lawsuits sought to overturn it.
Richard “Bigo” Barnett, the subject of the now-infamous photograph showing him sitting at Nancy Pelosi's desk with his foot propped up during the storming of the Capitol
The pressure is mounting on trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to grant tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones