By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
Associated Press
Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose work on the countryâs history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives.
Hannah-Jones was offered a position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the school announced last month. Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her work on The 1619 Project for The New York Times Magazine.
But the school changed its offer from a tenured position to a five-year term as a professor with an option for review at the end of that time, as first reported by NC Policy Watch on Wednesday.
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