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.
Controversial 1619 Project Author Rejects Tenure Offer From UNC, Accepts Howard University Offer
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