Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones was not offered tenure from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's journalism school, following backlash from conservatives, according to NBC News. Instead of a tenured professorship, Hannah-Jones was offered a five-year teaching contract by the Hussman School of Media and Journalism. In April, the school announced that they brought on Hannah-Jones as the Knight Chair in Race and investigative Journalism in July. She is the first person in the role to be denied tenure by the board, The 19th reported. Hannah-Jones created the 1619 Project for the New York Times, which teaches […]
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