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Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File On Wednesday, trustees for the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill voted to grant tenure to New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the notorious “1619 Project.” UNC had earlier revoked the offer of tenure, which usually forms part of the deal for a Knight Chair professorship. Conservatives spoke out against UNC’s move hiring Hannah-Jones, whose project pushes Marxist critical race theory, divides Americans by race, and arguably helped inspire the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots last summer.
Protesters demonstrated Wednesday at the Carolina Inn, where the trustees held the meeting. Some black scholars and administrators said they were reconsidering their willingness to remain on the campus after watching how the board had treated Hannah-Jones, NPR reported .
In April, UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism announced that Hannah-Jones would become the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, taking a Knight Chair professorship, endowed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The professorship brings top professionals to classrooms to teach and mentor students.
While not all Knight Chair professorships are tenured, all of the Knight Chair professors teaching at the Chapel Hill campus have been tenured since 1980, when UNC began working with the foundation. It seems the university offered Hannah-Jones a fixed-term position in part because such positions do not require board approval.
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NPR traced the opposition to Hannah-Jones’ tenure to Walter Hussman, a UNC donor, alumnus, and Arkansas newspaper publisher whose name adorns the university’s journalism school. Hussman told NPR that he opposed granting Hannah-Jones tenure in part because she had distorted the historical record, particularly arguing that the “one of the primary reasons” the American colonists revolted against Britain in 1776 was to preserve the institution of slavery.
This claim led The New York Times to make an embarrassing correction shortly after launching the project. Slavery was not one of the motivating factors of the revolution, which itself disrupted slavery. Despite this fact, Hannah-Jones recently claimed that she will be able to back up […]
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