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
Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones attends The 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on May 20, 2016 in New York City. (Getty Images)
Hannah-Jones was apparently aware that she had posted Sibarium s phone number to her more than 518,000 followers, and even left up it up for more than a day before deleting it. @aaronsibarium is apparently trying to scour Black NYT employees Twitter accounts to find them using the N-word in response to Don McNeil s resignation, which is asinine on its face but also, homie, I don t use the N-word causually [sic] so this is all he came up with. Keep trying tho, she had written.