Race defines NC politics
Race defines NC politics - again Published 10:58 a.m. today “One word,” I told him: “Race.” It has always been about race. It still is. The latest front is the battle at UNC-Chapel Hill over tenure for a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Conservatives cloak their objections to her in academic robes. But they dislike Nikole Hannah-Jones, a UNC alumna and New York Times reporter, because she produced “The 1619 Project” about slavery’s impact on America. Nikole Hannah-Jones As with conservative complaints about public schools teaching “critical race theory,” opposition to he...