Foundation urges UNC to rethink Hannah-Jones tenure decision
May 20, 2021
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FILE - In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives. A report in NC Policy Watch on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 said Hannah-Jones was to be offered a tenured professorship as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP