The N.C. Textbook Commission was targeted in a Senate primary campaign ad as parents raise concern over identity politics in school curriculum.
Below are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week. At the Carolina Liberty Conference, we heard from Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee. Dillon had a great line from his speech, saying, “It is very difficult to parody a world that is a parody of itself.” The stories below aren’t satire,...
I know the Nikole Hannah-Jones story has drawn more attention than it deserved. But I can’t help myself. There has been some superb reporting in Carolina Journal, but I don’t think the contrarian position to McClatchy newspapers, Capital Broadcasting, and public news and radio has been fully expressed. We now know what really happened. I...
A group that advocates for N.C. public schools will turn to controversial journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones as the featured speaker for its October summit. The Public School Forum of North Carolina broke the news Thursday morning about Hannah-Jones serving as keynote speaker Oct. 26 for the virtual “Color of Education 2021” summit. Hannah-Jones has generated headlines...
If you raft on the river of popular culture, then you can hardly do better than to hire Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart as your guides. One man lived long enough to become the elder statesman of American letters by 1910, and the other died young in 2012, but both of them paid sharp attention...
The narrative of the Nikole Hannah-Jones saga that has engulfed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been pretty straightforward: Evil Republicans on the Board of Trustees unexpectedly deny the fundamental academic right of tenure to a black female journalist because of politics and racism. The reality is a lot more complicated. Reasonable...
Triangle-based media outlets have been extensively reporting various issues surrounding Nikole Hannah-Jones declining to accept an offer of employment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Several media outlets are reporting on UNC-Chapel Hill black student leaders and organizations’ demands from campus administrators. On July 7, the News and Observer’s Kate Murphy reported:...
When I was asked to join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, I never dreamt of asking for tenure, even though I was a national, if not global, thought leader in a major and growing field of study. I was hired to create and teach the MBA courses on corporate governance. I had a...
That Hannah-Jones didn’t receive immediate tenure, and will instead be evaluated according to her future classroom performance, is no outrage.
