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In mid-May, the fraught fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spilled into public view. Shortly after that, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
New York Times journalist had her first conversation with Wayne A. I. Frederick, the president of Howard University.
The conversation set in motion a series of events that unfolded behind the scenes with remarkable speed for the worlds of academe and philanthropy, and culminated in the announcement on Tuesday that Howard had hired Hannah-Jones. It was a sharp contrast to the agonized and prolonged controversy playing out in Chapel Hill, where UNC’s Board of Trustees refused to vote on her tenure for months, reportedly because of political opposition to her hiring.
A proposed levee along the Neuse River at Seven Springs and a pilot project to address chronic flooding in the Stoney Creek watershed are two of the items in flood-mitigation legislation making its way through the General Assembly.
The âDisaster Relief and Mitigation Act,â House Bill 500, would allocate more than $200 million on projects to prevent flooding and to plan ahead for damaging storms. It would be âthe largest and most comprehensive statewide investment that North Carolina has ever made to prepare for future storms,â said House Majority Leader John Bell, R-Wayne, one of the primary sponsors.
Approximately $15.2 million of that funding would be for projects that have an impact on Wayne County, Bell said.
Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
New York Times Magazine staff writer and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones announced in an exclusive interview on “CBS This Morning” with co-host Gayle King that she was rejecting an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
Instead, Hannah-Jones explained that she would accept a tenured professorship at Howard University in Washington D.C. as the Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at the Cathy Hughes School of Communication.
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Hannah-Jones will join writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (who wrote
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You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you,
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UPDATE ON JULY, 4, 2021
Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time US defence secretary who was one of the main architects of the Iraq war, has died at the age of 88, three days ago. Serving under President George W Bush, he was a key proponent of the so-called “war on terror” after the 9/11 attacks.
US forces invaded Iraq in 2003 after claiming the country had weapons of mass destruction, but no such weapons were found. Mr Rumsfeld resigned three years later amid the fallout from the conflict. He staunchly defended his record, but many experts blamed him for decisions that led to difficulties in Iraq and the wider region.
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