Nikole Hannah-Jones Readies Legal Challenge Amid Stalled UNC Tenure Bid.

The article reports on the evaluation of legal recourse against the University of North Carolina and its board by lawyers representing journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones over the denial of her tenure in June 2021. Topics discussed include the role of antidemocratic suppression that prohibits the free exchange of ideas in her legal recourse, significance of the prize-winning journalistic work of Hannah-Jones on race in society, and criticism received by the hiring of the journalist as a professor.