Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is joining the faculty of Howard University, having rejected a tenured position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, but her UNC tenure application was initially halted because of what she said was political opposition among trustees and the opposition of a top donor to the journalism school.
She eventually was granted tenure following the controversy.But in an interview with CBS This Morning, Hannah-Jones said that she decided to decline the offer.“Every other chair before me, who also happened to be White, received that position with tenure,” she said. “To have that vote occur on the last possible day,
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