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"Cancel Culture," Hypocrisy, and Double Standards

Two controversies—over Nikole Hannah-Jones's teaching post at UNC and Emily Wilder's firing by the AP—raise questions about attacks on free speech from the right

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Cathy Young
May 25, 2021
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Nikole Hannah-Jones at an event in June 2018 Photo: Alice Vergueiro/Abraji

Last Wednesday, a surge of Twitter outrage followed reports that Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, recently appointed Knight Chair in race and investigative journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, d…

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