“The University of North Carolina system has done much to silence Larry Chavis. He has been denied promotions he earned, he is paid less than rookie professors fresh off a PH.D, and his classes were secretly recorded,” attorney Artur Davis said in the press release. “When the suppression didn’t work, they finally fired him.”

A professor suspended for making comments deemed racially offensive has claimed she was targeted for expressing “anti-woke” opinions.

The school says its suspension at half-pay and other sanctions on Amy Wax is over her comments about race in recent years. She will also lose her named chair and summer pay.