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Nikole Hannah-Jones and UNC Resolve Hiring Dispute
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty After a highly publicized dispute which centered on the denial of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the university responsible has reached a settlement with her. According to reports, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced on Friday (July 15th) that it reached the settlement with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. “The steps taken to resolve the lingering potential legal action posed by Ms. Hannah-Jones will hopefully help to close this chapter and give the university the space to focus on moving forward,” said David Boliek, chair of the university’s board of trustees, said in the statement released by the school. The amount of the settlement estimated to be close to $75,000, and it was approved by Kevin Gusciewicz...
Chris Wallace Doesn’t Think Young Civil Rights Era White People Were Racist, Nikole Hannah-Jones Sets Him Straight
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Getty Booooy, CNN+ host Chris Wallace should’ve just stayed his a** at Fox News because he just doesn’t fit the brand when it comes to non-conservative platforms where “not all white people” arguments just don’t fly. Recently, Wallace sat down with historian and creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and really tried to whitesplain to this scholar of African American studies that during and even before the civil rights era, it was only really old white people who were racist. Now, obviously, this isn’t even a debate worth having. We’ve seen the iconic photos of school-aged white people verbally and physically attacking Black students like Ruby Bridges who integrated into their schools. The white people pouring liquid over the h...
Nikole Hannah-Jones Turns Down UNC Job, Joins Howard University Faculty With Tenure
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marcus Ingram / Getty Nikole Hannah-Jones, an award-winning journalist responsible for the stellar The 1619 Project for the New York Times, was on track to join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s faculty, seeking tenure in the process. After haggling with the university, Hannah-Jones has elected to go with famed HBCU Howard University and has received tenure to boot. Hannah-Jones was a guest on CBS This Morning with host Gayle King on Tuesday (July 6) where she made her first interview stating that she will be joining Howard as the Nikole Hannah-Jones as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Joining Hannah-Jones at the Washington, D.C. establishment is author and MacArthur Fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates and the pair will help form the...
Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure For Her Work on The 1619 Project
Source: Marcus Ingram / Getty The conservative backlash to the acclaim of the widely-heralded 1619 Project by the New York Times Magazine has caused another controversy for journalist and 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones was denied a tenured professorship at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this week. The position, a Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, was denied her by the school’s Board of Trustees this week despite the recommendations of the dean, faculty and school Chancellor Kevin Gusciewicz. Instead, she will begin a five-year contract with her alma mater beginning July 1st as a Professor of the Practice with the option to have another tenure review at the end of her term. The move ha...
