Nikole Hannah-Jones , the leading author of the New York Times’s highly controversial 1619 Project, has turned down a tenure offer from the University of North Carolina …
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the leading author of the New York Times’s highly controversial 1619 Project, has turned down a tenure offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after the university caved to pressure and approved her tenure appointment. Hannah-Jones made the announcement on Tuesday during an interview with “CBS This Morning.” Instead, she will be teaching at Howard University, a historically black institution in Washington, D.C., as a Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. She will also lead Howard’s newly founded Center for Journalism and Democracy, which aims to train investigative journalists who focus on “the crisis our democracy is facing,” according to a university press release. Hannah-Jones was originally set to teach at UNC Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media as a Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.
