in a major recruiting coup howard university announced journalist nikol hannah-jones and ta-nehisi coates both mcarthur geniuses are joining the faculty in the fall. hannah-jones will become the nice chair in race and reporting at howard and will create a new initiative aimed at training inspiring journalist and have secured $15 million to launch the effort. coates will hold the sterling brown chair in the english department. howard s win count counts as a loss to university of south carolina. and hannah-jones a unc alum was set to fill the school s own night chair in race and investigative journalism, after