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No, thank you: Nikole Hannah-Jones: Carolina’s loss is Howard U’s gain | Afro

By Wayne Dawkins Thanks, but no thanks. That is what Nikole Hannah-Jones said to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill after months of becoming a reluctant cause celeb. Hannah-Jones, New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner of the 1619 Project, had been offered a tenured professorship at the school where she earned a Master’s […]

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