UNC Chapel Hill board doesn't approve tenure for noted journalist

Image:  In an unusual if not unprecedented move, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees declined to approve a tenured appointment for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. The reason? Many say it's politics. “This is a very political thing,” an anonymous trustee reportedly told NC Policy Watch, which broke the story this week. “The university and the Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors and the legislature have all been getting pressure since this thing...