The drama between 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill finally ended on Tuesday morning.
Hannah-Jones wanted tenure for her position as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, but professors and outside groups demanded it not happen.
UNC tried to stand its ground but eventually caved. Done and over, right?
Nope! Hannah-Jones revealed this morning she declined the tenure offer and will become the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at Howard University.
From The Washington Post:
“I am so incredibly honored to be joining one of the most important and storied educational institutions in our country … ” Hannah-Jones said in a statement. “One of my few regrets is that I did not attend Howard as an undergraduate, and so coming here to teach fulfills a dream I have long carried.”Hannah-Jones will also found a Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard. She said it will aim to train journalism students from historically Black schools to “accurately and urgently [cover] the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today’s journalism.
Mike did a wonderful job capturing the drama since April:
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