By Julia Johnson | July 6, 2021 | 4:15pm EDT
Nikole Hannah-Jones, inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, July 6, the architect of the infamous 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, announced to
CBS This Morning her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer for tenure, after initially being denied it, and accept a position at Howard University as a chaired professor.
“I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be teaching on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Hannah-Jones told CBS’s Gayle King.
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Texas GOP Enacts âRuthlessâ Voter Suppression, Sparking Calls For Federal Action Screenshot from Harris County Elections Instagram (@harrisvotes)
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
After reaching a deal less than a day earlier, overnight Sunday Texas state senators debated then passed along party lines a GOP voter suppression bill that was condemned by rights advocates and political figures across the United Statesâincluding President Joe Bidenâand has sparked calls for Congress to urgently combat Republican attacks on democracy. Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote, Biden saidSaturday. It s part of an assault on democracy that we ve seen far too often this yearâand often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans. It s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every elig
PHOENIX (AP) â A Latino civil rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Arizona s top prosecutor on behalf of nonprofit groups that say his efforts to block President Joe Biden s changes to past immigration policy are unlawful.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Tuesday filed the lawsuit against Attorney General Mark Brnovich for the Arizona-based Puente Human Rights Movement, Chicanos Por La Causa and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. The groups provide services to immigrants.
The Tuesday filing seeks to void an agreement Brnovich signed with former President Donald Trump s administration in its waning days. The agreement is among several the outgoing government signed with numerous states, saying they were entitled to to a 180-day consultation period before any executive branch policy changes take effect.