It’s too early to tell whether MacKenzie Scott’s approach to giving will create a sea change in how other ultrawealthy donors give or what they support.
Hannah-Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A university spokesman, Joel Curran, told
The Chronicle that Hannah-Jones’s lawyers had sent a letter to Chapel Hill, too. Curran declined to comment further.
NC Policy Watch that she had retained counsel “to ensure the academic and journalistic freedom of Black writers is protected to the full extent of the law and to seek redress for the University of North Carolina’s adverse actions against me.”
In her statement to the news outlet, she pointed to the “wave of antidemocratic suppression that seeks to prohibit the free exchange of ideas, silence Black voices, and chill free speech” as reasons she had decided to “fight back.”
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A Push for Zoning Reform in Connecticut
Momentum is growing for multifamily housing to be built in a state full of detached single-family houses.
The historic town green in the affluent suburb of Woodbridge, which is being pressured by housing activists to ease its zoning restrictions to allow multifamily housing.Credit.Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
By Lisa Prevost
Feb. 26, 2021
A broad-based zoning reform movement is gathering momentum in Connecticut, as racial justice activists step up their efforts to break down barriers to affordable housing and economic opportunity at a time of national awakening around such issues.
DesegregateCT, an all-volunteer organization founded by Sara C. Bronin, a Mexican-American lawyer and architect, is lobbying state lawmakers to enact sweeping reform by amending statutory zoning guidelines to force suburban and rural communities to allow more multifamily housing, particularly near transit centers and downtowns.
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