UNC has until Friday to offer tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones or face a federal lawsuit, according to a report by NC Policy Watch. Last week, attorneys with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the law firms Levy Ratner and Ferguson Chambers & Sumter sent a letter to UNC that laid out Hannah-Jones’ case and demanded it make good on what they said was its initial offer of a tenured position. “We intend to bring litigation to vindicate Ms. Hannah-Jones’ rights under federal and state law,” the attorneys wrote. “This letter is to demand that UNC take immediate action to remedy its conduct to avoid suit by making an unconditional offer to Ms. Hannah-Jones of a tenured appointment as full professor no later than June 4, 2021.” The letter said said “UNC’s actions to effectively deny tenure to Ms. Hannah-ones, in contravention of multiple written and verbal representations to her, constitute viewpoint discrimination and race-based employment discrimination and retaliatio...