The UNC Board of Trustees is under renewed pressure to consider the tenure application of incoming journalism professor Nikole Hannah-Jones or it could face federal and state lawsuits. A report from NC Policy Watch on Saturday said attorneys with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the law firm Levy Ratner and the law firm Ferguson Chambers & Sumpter sent a letter to the university’s general counsel on Thursday. The letter, in response to the Board of Trustees’ delay of consideration of Hannah-Jones’ tenure application, said the attorneys will file a lawsuit against UNC if the Pulitzer Prize-winner is not offered tenure by Friday.