By Julia Johnson | July 6, 2021 | 4:15pm EDT Nikole Hannah-Jones, inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. (Getty Images) On Tuesday, July 6, the architect of the infamous 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, announced to CBS This Morning her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer for tenure, after initially being denied it, and accept a position at Howard University as a chaired professor. “I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be teaching on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Hannah-Jones told CBS’s Gayle King.