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Nikole Hannah-Jones
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday awarded tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a dramatic turnabout in the saga that has come to symbolize public colleges’ vulnerability to political forces in a polarized country. The university’s Board of Trustees formally voted, 9 to 4, in favor of bestowing the status on Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
New York Times journalist and lead author of the controversial “1619 Project,” in a special meeting.
The board’s vote capped a hectic few days in which the university’s student-body president, Lamar Richards, had petitioned his fellow board members to officially vote on Hannah-Jones before July 1, when she was scheduled to begin work as the holder of an endowed chair in UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Hannah-Jones’s lawyers had written in a letter that she would not start her position without tenure.
At UNC, the Damage Is Done
No matter what happens to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure, people of color have lost trust in Chapel Hill.
Courtesy of Malinda Maynor Lowery
Malinda Maynor Lowery, a history professor, is leaving the University of North Carolina because of a series of missteps. Riven by Discord June 29, 2021
This week, Erika K. Wilson will officially become a full professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill one of the few Black women to hold that title. But Wilson, who teaches law and public policy, has found it hard to celebrate.
She’s spent the last few weeks fuming that the university has failed to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Lessons that deal with critical race theory and the “1619 Project” are not welcome in Florida’s public schools following a State Board of Education vote on Thursday. At the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the board unanimously adopted a rule that, in the words of member Tom Grady, emphasizes historical facts over “fiction, projects or theory masquerading as fact.” Grady offered an amendment that .
There's been an important new development in the Nikole Hannah-Jones story. According to the veteran journalist John Drescher, writing for a North Carolina website called The Assembly, a "mega-donor" to the University of North Carolina opposed hiring Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist who conceived of the 1619 Project and who's been denied…