'One Tree Hill' and 'Sleepy Hollow' celebrities call for removal of UNCW professor, tell fans to not enroll in the school

A trio of television celebrities with ties to the Port City are using their social media platforms to push for the firing of a controversial UNCW professor.

Calls for Mike Adams’ to be fired from UNCW have grown louder over the past couple days after he made racially-charged comments on the coronavirus shut down during protests over the death of George Floyd.

Adams, who is a sociology and criminology professor and a columnist for The Daily Wire and Town Hall, offended thousands with a May 29 Twitter post that read, “This evening, I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go!”

Orlando Jones, who lives in Wilmington and starred in "Sleepy Hollow," is also calling for his resignation. The TV-series was filmed in the Wilmington-area.

He said that the professor "educating young minds is a problem."

Sophia Bush, who made her debut in the TV series "One Tree Hill," also filmed in Wilmington, retweeted Jones' tweet. She tagged UNCW's official Twitter account and asked the university, "how do you employ this person?"

Another actress joined along -- Hilarie Burton Morgan, who also starred in "One Tree Hill." She said, "We also want UNCW to fire Mike Adams. His harassment+hostility toward women and POC is unconscionable."

Morgan also told One Tree Hill fans to avoid enrolling in UNCW until Adams is fired.

A handful of online petitions calling for Mike Adams' resignation have over 100,00 signatures, collectively.