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Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University

Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University
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UNC backs down from offering 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones tenured position

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones loses UNC tenure offer amid backlash over her un-factual and biased work UNC officials this week confirmed Nikole Hannah-Jones would join its journalism school as a professor with a five-year contract this summer It comes three weeks after it was announced she would have tenured position Conservatives expressed outrage at the tenure offer citing Hannah-Jones controversial 1619 Project for the New York Times    The series reframed American history to start in 1619, when the first slaves from Africa arrived to Virginia, rather than 1776 when independence was declared It was heralded by some and criticized by others, including former President Donald Trump, who was opposed to the idea that it could be taught in schools 

NYT s 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones to teach journalism at University of North Carolina

NYT s 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones to teach journalism at University of North Carolina
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Over 100 years of humbugging

Before the Grinch, there was Scrooge. And if ever a man could play Charles Dickens’ Christmas curmudgeon to the hilt, it was the late great Earl Wynn, a distinguished professor credited with creating in 1954 the department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at UNC-CH, which merged in 1993 with the School of Journalism and Media. A holiday tradition for at least two decades, from the ‘60s into the mid-‘80s, Wynn’s dramatic reading of the Christmastime classic delighted Hill Hall audiences with his basso-profundo voice and dynamic performances. In my Chapel Hill News photo from 1984, Wynn as Scrooge lambastes his good nephew, Fred, with the scathing rant:

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