Tom Foreman Jr. | Associated Press
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An audio recording shows that an off-duty North Carolina sheriff’s deputy had a frantic conversation with a 911 operator after fatally shooting Jason Walker last weekend.
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A lawsuit filed on behalf of an adult and two minors in federal court says North Carolina’s requirement that transgender people undergo sex reassignment surgery is discriminatory, and not in line with a majority of states and medical organizations. Attorney Omar Gonzalez-Pagan says North Carolina statutes requiring people to have undergone sex reassignment surgery in order to correct a birth certificate is “antiquated.”
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A suspect was taken into custody Wednesday after one student was fatally shot at a North Carolina high school, officials said.
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The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to her faculty, says she's stepping down. Susan King issued a statement to the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Tuesday.
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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at UNC Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure. She said she would instead take up the tenured Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at Howard University, a historically Black school in Washington.
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Discontent over how Black students, faculty and staff have been treated for years at North Carolina's flagship public university is reemerging after the school refused to offer tenure to a prominent investigative journalist who's won awards for her work on systemic racism.
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The pressure on trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to grant tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones continued to mount Friday as a major funding partner joined the call to change her status and a sought-after chemistry professor decided not to join the faculty over the dispute.
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A major University of North Carolina donor said Wednesday that he sent emails to university officials questioning the hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones after he became concerned about how much research went into the selection of the investigative journalist, whose award-winning work on slavery he called “highly contentious and highly controversial."
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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure application at the University of North Carolina was halted because she didn’t come from a “traditional academic-type background," and a trustee who vets the lifetime appointments wanted more time to consider her qualifications, university leaders said Thursday.
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Faculty members at UNC Chapel Hill want an explanation for the school's reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives.