Nikole Hannah-Jones is getting the last laugh, joins the faculty of Howard University as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting
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rejected a tenure offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will, instead, join the faculty of Howard University as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.Her decision comes after the UNC board of trustees voted 9-4 in Hannah-Jones’s favor after initially declining to offer her tenure in the first place.
“This was a position that, since the 1980s, came with tenure,” Hannah-Jones said in an interview with CBS’s Gayle King Tuesday. “The Knight Chairs are designed for professional journalists who have been working in the field to come work in academia, and every other chair before me—who also happened to be white—received that position with tenure.”
In April, UNC hired Hannah-Jones as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, but the university’s decision to withhold tenure became a national story. The ordeal intensified when it became known that newspaper publisher Walter Hussman Jr, a major donor for whom the school is named after, allegedly voiced concerns over Hannah-Jones’s employment and.
the right as critical race theory frenzy reaches a fever pitch, it was the perfect storm of bullshit, and it’s made UNC look foolish.