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Although the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's candidacy has been resubmitted, Hannah-Jones and her legal counsel are considering a discrimination lawsuit.

On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Ms. Gwynne Wilcox to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, who is a senior partner at union-side labor and employment firm of Levy Ratner PC

The Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure controversy at UNC: Answers to common questions Kate Murphy, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) May 29—Acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and a team of lawyers are considering taking legal action against UNC-Chapel Hill for discrimination, following a wave of national outrage over her not getting tenure for a new position she will take at the university this summer. Here's what you need to know about the issue. Who is Nikole Hannah-Jones? Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Black woman and an investigative journalist for The New York Times who was ...

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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-...