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2021-07-07 -Great Cultural Revolution
'1619 Project' Founder Rejects Her Alma Mater's Tenure Offer
[PJMEDIA] Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited "1619 Project," has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at one of America’s most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Howard University. Hannah-Jones argued that the controversy over her hiring and tenure had more to do with racism and sexism than her outright lies about American history.

"It’s pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoints and, I believe, because of my race and my gender," Hannah-Jones told Gayle King on CBS This Morning, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.

"It has to be made clear: I went through the official tenure process and my peers in academia said that I was deserving of tenure," the 1619 Project founder argued. "The board members are political appointees who decided that I wasn’t."

While opposition to Hannah-Jones’ tenured position was indeed partially political, the political dispute traces back to the 1619 Project’s shameless twisting of history.

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.
Posted by Fred 2021-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [34 views ]  Top

#1 I don't blame her. Who would want tenure at a uni that would give someone like her tenure?
Posted by SteveS 2021-07-07 00:24||   2021-07-07 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 "I refuse to belong to any organization that would have me as a member". Groucho Marx
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-07-07 08:43||   2021-07-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Hannah-Jones took a tenured position at Howard instead of a non-tenured position at UNC. Because she was not offered a tenured position at UNC, she and her legal eagles were looking into suing UNC for racism? What hubris.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-07-07 09:24||   2021-07-07 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others. - Groucho Marx UNC
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-07 09:59||   2021-07-07 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Jen Psaki says Howard University students are 'lucky to have' 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones as a faculty member after she rejected UNC's tenure offer
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-07 10:17||   2021-07-07 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 You want us to keep the gravy flowing via student loans, pump the crap into kids heads we tell you to push. (Deep State)
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-07-07 10:41||   2021-07-07 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7  Howard University founded by the very people they hate. For minorities not just black people as I read on a plaque in the main entrance hall. Oil painting line the walls and I don't recall seeing black people. Hot bed of hate during the riot years as broadcasted by WHUR and Another was from American University( WPUT I believe).
Posted by Dale 2021-07-07 11:38||   2021-07-07 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 You'd think that with that hairdo her head would tip over like Guam
Posted by Frank G 2021-07-07 11:53||   2021-07-07 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 I could say UNC dodged a bullet but I stopped donating to the old alma mater after their 9-11 bs.
Posted by Glenmore  2021-07-07 21:56||   2021-07-07 21:56|| Front Page Top

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