As illustrious groups of journalists, academics, and artists, and parts of the UNC community rally around acclaimed 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, opponents to her tenured position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at UNC are being exposed. As theGrio previously reported, UNC’s board of trustees thwarted Hannah-Jones’ track to the tenured Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism by refusing to review her application, essentially backtracking the university’s offer for the position. Last week, 1,619 UNC alumni and students published a letter detailing their outrage about the board’s decision and a tenure request for the Pulitzer, Peabody, and MacArthur winner was re-submitted.